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NAT. ORDER. SENTICOSJE. 



and send them to Stockholm, where they are served up in deserts 

 or made into tarts. The Laplanders bruise and eat them with the 

 milk of tlie reindeer. Neill observes, that they are the most graceful 

 kind of fruit gathered by the Scotch Highlanders. On the sides and 

 near the bases of the mountains, it may be collected for several 

 months in succession. It is not cultivated without difficulty, and it 

 seldom yields fruit in a garden. By crossing the flowers with those 

 of the common l)raml)le or raspberry, and raising from the seeds so 

 impregnated, in all probability this plant might become a valuable 

 accession to the kitchen garden. It is a native of Europe, Siberia, 

 and North America. Flowers in June. 



The fruit of the Raspberry is grateful to most palates as nature pre- 

 sents it, but sugar improves the flavor; accordingly it is much esteem- 

 ed when made into sweetmeats, and for jams, tarts, and sauces. It is 

 fragrant, sub-acid, and cooling, allays heat and thirst. It is much 

 used in distilling, to make the cordial spirituous liquor, from which 

 it has its name. Raspberry syrup is next to the strawberry in dissol- 

 ving the tartar of the teeth, as like that fruit it does not undergo the 

 acetous fermentation in the stomach ; it is recommended to gouty and 

 rheumatic persons. There is already known one hundred and forty- 

 seven species of this delicious plant, besides an innumerable number 

 of their varieties. 



Propagation aivl Culture. The varieties can be perpetuated by 

 the young suckers, which spring from the roots in spring and smmner ; 

 when these have completed one year's growth, they are proper to de- 

 tach with roots for planting, either in the autumn or the next spring in 

 February or March, but never later than the middle of April. These 

 new plants will bear some fruit the same year, and furnish a suc- 

 cession of strong bottom shoots for full bearing the second year. New 

 varieties are easily raised from seed, and they will come into bearing 

 the second season. 



