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There are some fruits that are undeniably delicious, yet you are 

 soon done with them. Witness Eugenia ugni : is it not most richly 

 flavoured, and yet would you not like to see the portrait of a man 

 who had eaten at one turn and as a treat the small quantity of half 

 a pint of them ? "Well, coming back to raspberries, I mu.^t say I 

 think them the best in existence for eating as gathered, and invalu-. 

 able too for the more formal but not more enjoyable dessert. 



There is some fly that has a keen scent and an epicure's palate. 

 It selects the blossom of the yellow raspberry for the deposit 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 

 ready to assume the pupa condition in the earth, unless they find 

 their way with the fruit to some other destination less suited to 

 their idiosyncrasies. 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 were warned of the liability to which rubio- 

 phagists are exposed when indulging in white or yellow raspberries. 

 There is no red raspberry to equal for the dessert the old Eed 

 Antwerp, which has about fifty syuonymes, the principal being 

 Knevett's Antwerp, Late-bearing Antwerp, Howland's Bed, and a. 

 Gros Fruits Rouges. "Whenever you find that a fruit or vegetable 

 has many synonymes, your next anxiety should be to obtain it, for it 

 is sure to be first-rate ; it is its excellence which tempts people to 

 pin their names to it. As respects aliases, then, fruits and vegeta- 

 bles diff"er 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 cur- 

 rant and raspberry pies, raspberry jam, and so forth, a few of the 

 best red varieties only should be planted, and the best of these are 

 Red Antwerp, Eastolf, Prince of Wales, and Yice-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 

 buman. I noticed three years ago that of forty-three sorts planted^ 

 only one did any good ; the rest were burnt up by drought, and 

 having no water at all artificially — for they were a long way off in a 

 piece of rented ground — they had enough to do to make a few 

 wretched canes, and made no fruit at all, though planted in such 

 style that if the season had been moderately rainy they would have 

 done wonders. It so happens that the iori that produced a tolera- 

 bly good crop was the very prolific Fillbasket, which is certainly the 

 iest market rasplerry, but, as being deficient of flavour, not good 

 enough for private families, except when no others are to be had. 

 If you are about to plant, you may add this if you like, but you 

 must remember that the remark just made bears upon an excep- 

 tional season, and an exceptional condition of things ; the four 

 named above will suffice for ninety-nine in any and every hundred 

 gardens. 



The true old Eed Antwerp is not so easily obtainable as some 



