DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



])laute<l l>y his father noarly forty years ago. Two other trees in the vicinity, one on tlie 

 fanu of Mr. Norman Slieklon, and the other on that of Mr. Winner, are also said to be seed- 

 lings bearing fruit very similar to the Sheldon. They have been carefully examineil by 

 competent judges, who assure us that they present no appearance of ever having been grafted 

 or budded. And yet, no one who has seen the fruit from these three trees, can for a moment 

 entertain a doubt as to their perfect and entire identity. The only way of reconciling the 

 discordant facts and statements of the case, is to adopt the more than probable conclusion, 

 that two of them are unworked suckers from the remaining one. Such, I have been credibly 

 informed, is now the conviction of Major Sheldon. 



A description of the Sheldon was published in Jloney^s Mayaziue of Horticulture for June, 

 1851, and in the Uortlculturist for January, 1853. 



Prdxixg the Raspberry. — The accompanying figures represent the wood of the preceding 



summer's growth. 



The portion with buds, marked a a, is from the upper part of the shoot ; that with buds, 



marked h b, is taken from the lower part of the shoot or cane. The buds a a, can scarcely 



be termed blossom-buds, inasmuch as they do not contain the rudiments of flowers like 



the blossom-buds of larger fruit ; but each 

 of them possesses the power of producing 

 a branchlet, and on this blossom-buds are 

 formed. The buds b b, on the lower part of 

 the cane, do not generally push unless the 

 upper have been cut away, and then the lower 

 are stimulated, producing, however, shoots 

 and fruit later in the season than those ob- 

 tained from the buds a a. Advantage has 

 been sometimes taken of this, to procure a 

 succession of fruit in autumn. 



Raspberry shoots, or canes, growing up in one 

 summer, and producing fruit in the next, and 

 then dying to the ground, a succession having, 

 meantime, sprung up. The pruning usually 

 consists in the obvious operation of cutting 

 away all the dead wood — that which has 

 borne fruit ; and, in the shortening that which 

 is alive, thinning the canes so as to leave three, 

 four, five, or six, from a plant, according to 

 its strength. 



An improvement may, however, be eflfected 

 on this general mode. As the finest and best 

 of these fruits are, in all cases, the produce of 

 strong and well-ripened canes, it becomes 

 necessary that the shoots should have every 

 advantage afforded them. This may readily 

 be effected by causing all the fonuer year's 

 canes to be cut down to the ground as soon 

 as they have produced their crop, instead of 



allowing them to stand till the winter or spring ; this removes an unnecessary incumbrance, 

 at a season when sun and air are of infinite importance to the young canes, and, conse- 

 y, to the succeeding crop. 



