26 MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN. 



The stalks seem to be biennial institutions ; and 

 as they get about their growth one year, ana 

 bear the next year, and then die, and the winters 

 here nearly always kill them, unless you take 

 them into the house (which is inconvenient if 

 you have a family of small children), it is very 

 difficult to induce the plant to flower and fruit. 

 This is the greatest objection there is to this 

 sort of raspberry. I think of keeping these for 

 discipline, and setting out some others, more 

 hardy sorts, for fruit. 



