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it: — " I think it one of the most valuable introductions we 

 have lately been favored with in this class of fruits. It is, I 

 believe, of continental origin, and may be called the large- 

 fruited montlil}'- raspberry : it continues to bear from the end 

 of August all through September, October, and, if the frost is 

 not severe, (it does not mind a slight frost,) till the end of 

 November. The late heavy rains have inj ured its flavor slightly ; 

 before they visited us, it was quite equal in flavor, as it is in 

 size, to raspberries in July. To ensure a very abundant crop 

 in autumn, all the canes should be cut down close to the 

 ground in spring; but a good autumnal crop may be obtained, 

 as well as a crop in summer, by leaving one cane, cut in the 

 usual manner, to each root, cutting the others down closely 

 for the autumnal crop. My plants are now covered with 

 fruit in all its stages, and many lateral shoots are just coming 

 into bloom, so that, if grown in large pots, and placed under 

 glass, raspberries may be gathered in December. It bears its 

 autumnal crop from lateral shoots, which each rod puts forth 

 from every joint, forming a beautiful pyramidal bush. In 

 this respect, as well as in the superior size and flavor of its 

 fruit, it difliers from the old variety known as the double- 

 bearing raspberry. At this moment, my plants are borne 

 down with the weight of fruit upon them. 



Strawberries. 



Notwithstanding the production of many varieties of straw- 

 berries by English cultivators, the Keen's Seedling and the 

 British Queen yet maintain their supremacy, and probably 

 the most extensively cultivated strawberry in Britain is the 

 former variety. Mr. Myatt, the originator of the latter, has 

 raised several seedlings within a few years, which have been 

 named and disseminated, but they have no great merit to 

 recommend them. Like many seedlings, they are no better, 

 if scarcely as good, as the parents, and, after a few years, 

 they will go out of cultivation altogether. This has been the 

 case with numerous highly prized seedlings raised here ; over- 

 rated at first, they always disappoint the expectations of cul- 

 tivators. 



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