THE RASPBERRY. 
WHEN well grown, and of the best varieties, this is 
one of our most wholesome and excellent fruits. It 
deserves a far more general and better cultivation 
than is usually given to it; and its free use, succeed- 
ing the strawberry, as it does, would doubtless conduce 
to the general health of the community. 
If grown without care, it is often small, hard, and 
with little good flavor; but when highly cultivated, 
it is large, melting, and delicious. It will repay the 
best care, and to very few fruits is this so indispensable 
as to the raspberry. 
A rather moist, cool location, on the north slope of 
a side-hill, or shade of a fence, is to be chosen; and 
the soil should be deep and rich. A deep loam 
is preferable, but other soils can be made to answer 
the purpose; it should be well broken up, trenched 
and pulverized to the depth of two feet, then enriched 
with well-rotted manure, vegetable, if convenient. 
The plants should be shortened ten or twelve inches | 
at the top, and set out very early in the spring, at a 
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