THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE, 



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at the head of a small ante- garden, and are very happily situated both 

 for shelter and sunshine. Others are trained to stakes in an open 

 quarter; and others, again, are trained to walls which have various 

 aspects. Mr. Smith has for several years past had large crops of very 

 fine grapes ; and a light wine which he brews from Muscadine is at two 

 years old considerably better than the average of champagne sold in 

 London at forty-five shillings. The system followed is the lon^ rod, 

 with occasional modifications as suggested by circumstances. The 

 growth of this season consists of rods two to four feet in length, as 

 thick as a man's second finger, and beautifully brown and hard. Grape- 

 vines on walls are nearly as common in this country as chickweed in 

 hedgerows, yet how few have ever got beyond Sweetwater and Esperione 

 for such a purpose ; and fewer still have given a fair trial to the culture 

 of vines in open quarters trained to stakes. 



"While upon this subject, it may be well to mention that grape- 

 growing has been greatly promoted of late by Mr. Wells, whose patent 

 ground vineries have had an enormous sale. By the aid of one of these, 

 good grapes may be had in any part of Britain without a wall and 

 without a glass house. A lady could move the vinery from place to 

 place ; and when out of use during winter, they are easily adapted to 

 the protection of endive, lettuces, and other useful subjects, which are 

 usually too tender to endure the severities of the winter. S. H. 



NOTES ON THE EASPBEEEY. 



Lobd Bacon circulates the doctrine 

 that it is best to speak from our own 

 experiences ; very well, let me speak 

 from mine. If you have the least 

 idea next season of eating raspberries 

 in the garden, be sure to plant a row 

 of two or three, or more, different 

 sorts beside some by-walk, or in some 

 cool and rather shady retreat. You 

 may have your dessert kinds in the 

 open quarters with other fruit, or with 

 cabbages and winter spinach if you 

 please, but for eating on the spot 

 there ought to be a few stools so 

 planted that those who walk may eat, 

 and that without having to stir one 

 step from the proper and ordinary- 

 pathway. Of course this is easy 

 enough, and yet in making arrange- 

 ments for this season's planting you 

 might not think of it, unless put in 

 mind of it in this way. 



Another matter for peripatetic 

 rubiophagists is to have the ri°;ht 

 sorts. When I hand fruit3 to folks, 

 and stand by while they eat them, I 

 watch all the movements of the eyes 

 and the muscles of the face, and by 



the degrees of pain or pleasure indi- 

 cated in the changing expression, I 

 conclude in what precise degree that 

 particular fruit is acceptable, or the 

 reverse, to that particular palate. I've 

 tried all kinds of raspberries on 

 friends when strolling about the 

 garden, and I have invariably found 

 that the Sweet Yellow Antwerp gave 

 the most evident satisfaction, was 

 always the most readily and unhesi- 

 tatingly pronounced " delicious," and 

 invariably provoked an appetite for 

 more. Common Yellow Antwerp 

 comes next, and differs from it only 

 in being less sweet ; the first is, in 

 fact, an improved variety of the 

 second. Both are elegant fruits, and 

 unfortunately both, and in fact all 

 yellow raspberries, are liable to be 

 filled with maggots. There is some 

 fly that has a keen scent and an epi- 

 cure's palate. It selects the blossom 

 of the yellow raspberry for the de- 

 posit of its eggs. There the grubs 

 are produced, and take up their abode 

 in the berries, and by the time those 

 are ripe the grubs are ripe also, and 



