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THE RED ANTWERP RASPBERRY. 



branches, small, oval, and 

 smooth. The skin is tjiin, 

 glossy, colour pale, or dull 

 reddish brown, marked with 

 faint greenish lines. Flesh 

 lender, juicy, and of a sweet 

 and pleasant flavor. The 

 fruit ripens at the close of 

 July. Though not a high 

 flavored gooseberry, as com- 

 pared with the best Eu- 

 ropean varieties, yet the 

 great crop which it uniformly 

 bears, and the ease with 

 which it is grown, will no 

 doubt bring it into general 

 cultivation, both as a mar- 

 ket fruit and for home con- 

 sumption. 



We borrow a cut from the 

 Boston Cultivalor, ( which 

 journal rates it highly,) 

 which gives an accurate 

 representation of this vari- 

 ety- 





Fig 19. — Houghton's Gooseberry. 



FIELD CULTURE OP THE RED ANTWERP RASPBERRY. 



BY S. A BARRETT, MILTON, N. Y. 



The true Red Antwerp Raspberry is, per- 

 haps, the most profitable of all fruit to cul- 

 tivate for market. A plantation of three- 

 fourths of an acre, belonging to Mr. Na- 

 tiianiel Hallock, of Milton, Ulster county, 

 N. Y., has, the past season, produced 

 thirty-three hundred baskets, which he sold 

 in the New- York market at an average 

 price of ten* cents the basket. Here are 

 $330, gathered in one month, from ihree- 



* Higher prices were obtained by others, in the same mar- 

 ket. One gentleman received a sliilling a basket for the sea- 

 »oa, and the purchaser paid the freiglit. 



fourths of an acre of land! and at a 

 comparatively trifling outlay of labor and 

 money. 



The plants have been set one, two, and 

 three years ; so that they had not all at- 

 tained a full bearing age. Indeed, not 

 more than one-half of them had ; as the 

 third season from the planting is the ^rs^ of 

 full bearing. 



A greater sum of money than the above 

 named may have been gathered, in a single 

 season, from the same quantity of land ; 

 but when the small amount of labor which 



