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ready to assume the pupa condition 

 in the earth, unless they find their 

 way with the fruit to some other des- 

 tination less suited to their idiosyn- 

 crasies. There is no cure for this ; 

 you can only throw away all infected 

 berries ; but try and remember next 

 summer that at planting time you 

 w T ere warned of the liability to which 

 rubiophagists are exposed when in- 

 dulging in white raspberries. There 

 is no red raspberry to equal for the 

 dessert the old Eed Antwerp, which 

 has about fifty synonymes, the prin- 

 cipal being Knevett's Antwerp, Late- 

 bearing Antwerp, Howland's Red, 

 and a Gros Fruits Rouges. When- 

 ever you find that a fruit or vege- 

 table has many synonymes, your next 

 anxiety should be to obtain it, for it 

 is sure to be first-rate ; it is its ex- 

 cellence which tempts people to loin 

 their names to it. As respects aliases, 

 then, fruits and vegetables differ from 

 men and women, for, with the latter, 

 the more aliases they have the less 

 we care to trust them. 



When the cultivator of raspberries 

 desires only to have a fair supply of 

 fruits adapted for culinary purposes, 

 such as making currant and raspberry 

 pies, raspberry-jam, and so forth, a 

 lew of the best red varieties only 

 should be planted, and the best of 

 these are Red Antwerp (just recom- 

 mended for dessert), Fastolf, Prince 

 of Wales, and Vice-President French. 

 If I had a family of fifty, or say a 

 school consisting of hundreds of 

 young appetites to provide for, I 

 should not care for any besides these 

 four, but I would have no less, long 

 experience having taught me never to 

 be dependent on individuals, whether 

 vegetable or human. Fill-basket is 

 certainly the best market strawberry, 

 but, as being deficient of flavour, not 

 good enough for private families, ex- 

 cept when no others are to be had. 



The true old Red Antwerp is not 

 so easily obtainable as some other 

 sorts. The true sort has nearly smooth 

 canes, which are tall and stout. There 

 is a variety of it called Round Red 

 Antwerp, the fruit of which is rounder 

 and better flavoured, but it does not 

 bear so freely, and the slight advan- 

 tage of superior flavour is over- 



balanced by the disadvantage of its 

 comparative unproductiveness. Fastolf 

 may be more easily and truly ob- 

 tained than any known raspberry ; it 

 probably does duty for a great many 

 sorts in places where they are more 

 accommodating in spirit than in capa- 

 bility, for it suckers freely, and is so 

 good in habit and quality that to have 

 it under some other name is more a 

 vexation than a wrong. Prince of 

 Wales, raised by Messrs. Cutbush 

 and Son, of Highgate, is as good as 

 any raspberry known ; it produces 

 strong whitish canes,viry few suckers, 

 and the fruit — of which there is plenty 

 — is large, handsome, and has a fine 

 lively piquant flavour. Vice-Presi- 

 dent French has brownish canes, a 

 plentiful leafage ; the fruit is large, 

 the colour deep dull red, the flesh 

 very juicy and rich. The jam made 

 from this variety has a delightful 

 bouquet, and in all cooking opera- 

 tions where raspberries are employed 

 this douce ally will be found to place 

 himself happily en rapport with any 

 of the fruits that usually go with 

 raspberries. 



I could tell you of other good 

 varieties, but there Mould be no ad- 

 vantage in doing so. Carter's Pro- 

 lific is excellent in every respect, but 

 no better than Fastolf. It is very 

 prolific of suckers, but that is, as a 

 rule, no advantage to a private grower, 

 to whom generally the suckers are a 

 vexation when they rise like forests, 

 for the thinning is pretty sure to be 

 neglected till winter ; and so, instead 

 of a few stout strong canes, there are 

 myriads of thin weak ones. If you 

 want to exhibit, grow Barnet, which 

 produces a very large and handsome 

 but flavourless berry ; grow also 

 Cushing lor its brilliant colour; Fran- 

 conia, which is extra handsome, and 

 also has a lively acid flavour quite 

 distinct from the tame sweetness 

 common to red raspberries ; Large 

 Monthly for size and late bearing. 

 This comes in well for the autumn 

 shows. 



The mention of the Large Monthly 

 reminds me that the race of late rasp- 

 berries has been greatly improved by 

 the accession to the lists of October 

 Red and October Yellow. These are 



