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fipon tliis insect, for to liis careful observations arc we indebted for tlio 

 information given above. Should any of our readers wisli to pursue 

 this matter further, and become familiar with the appearance and 

 habits of the root-inhabiting type of this insect, they will find a full 

 description, with illusStrations, at page 57 of the Entomological Report,, 

 appended to tlie Report cf the Fruit Growers' Association, for the. 

 year 1874.. 



RASPBERRIES. 



BY B. GOTT, ARKONA, ONTARIO. 



Yes, kind reader, the grateful season of raspberries has again come 

 Tound, and here we have them in all their richness of variety, size^ 

 flavor and perfume. This is above all others emphatically a summer 

 fruit, possessing in a most liberal degree the cooling acids best suited 

 to the general healthfulness of the body in this feverish and intensely 

 heated summer atmosphere. As this country possesses these coniditions. 

 of summer-time in a very conspicuous and trying manner, so no country 

 can boast of richer, handsomer, or more fragrant raspberries in great 

 variety with which to refresh onr languishing, famishing systems. 

 During the week past we have been very busy among the raspberries,, 

 and of course our taste, smell and general sensitiveness is almost 

 literally filled with them, and having them too in such great variety 

 we are at once in a position to realize their value, and to compare 

 their merits and demerits among themselves. The surprising fact that 

 most forcibly strikes our attention is the growing demands and keen- 

 ness of popular relish for the fruit. It would seem that now our people 

 of every position in life are being waked up to realize the real worth 

 and desirablenesB of good home grown ra.spberries. 



Every patch of indigenous growth, no matter where found or without 

 regard to personal comfort or safety in approach, is frequently visited 

 by eager, famishing pickers, be they mother, or more sprightly son or 

 daughter. Going raspberrying in merry companies is now one of the 

 most yjleasant and enjoyable of summer memories. Men of capital, 

 position and intelligence scruple not to direct their attention to this 

 matter, and large plantations of acres of rich Canadian soil arp now 

 being .annually made to produce the fruit to supply the popular 



