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Old writers often call the plant the Raspis, or the 

 Hindberry. Pliny mentions it centuries ago as the Idaa^ 

 the Greeks so calling it after Mount Ida, where it was 

 abundant, and we to-day, in memory of this, call it 

 specifically idaus. 



The garden raspberry is but the result of cultivation 

 at the hands of the gardeners of the wild indigenous plant. 

 Dr. Turner says, in his Herbal of the Year 1568, that " the 

 raspis is found in many gardines of England." Gerard, in 

 his Generall Historie of Plantes, — our edition is dated 1633, 

 — says that " the Raspis is planted in gardens," but adds, 

 " it groweth not wilde that I knew of, except in the field 

 by a village in Lancashire called Harwood, not far from 

 Blackburne." Worledge, in his " Sy sterna Agrtculturie, 

 being the Mystery of Husbandry discovered and layd 

 open," our edition being that of 1675, declares that 

 " Rasberries are not to be omitted out of the number 

 of the most pleasant and usefull Fruits, which yield one 

 of the most pleasant Juyces of any Fruit, and being 

 extracted and preserved, will serve to tinge any other 

 Liquor with its delicate Aromatick Gust." 



STRAWBERRY (Fragaria Vesca) 



On the sloping hedgebank or in the copse one 

 may find the Strawberry, Fragaria vesca, in considerable 

 abundance. It is one of our indigenous plants, known 

 to our Anglo-Saxon forefathers as the streowberie, while 

 its botanical name bears testimony to its worth, being 

 compounded of two Latin words signifying fragrant and 

 good for food. By the ancients it was called the morbus 



