HASPBERllIES. 



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The Kentish raspberries are mostly sold at per ton on 

 the ground to the "smashers" or jam makers, the 

 farmer undertaking the cost of picking and sending 

 them in large tubs to the factory. The prices range 

 from 10 up to 30 per ton, in bad seasons. Of course, 

 the smaller growers will do better by cultivating a local 

 trade for dessert and other domestic purposes, where 

 they can work up such a market. 



The best varieties are Carter's Prolific. Baumforth's 

 Seedling, Fastolf, Antwerp, Eed and Yellow, and 

 Merveille de Quatre Saisons (autumn-bearing canes). 

 The two last are fruits for dessert. A new sort) 

 Superlative, is highly spoken of. When grown for 

 dessert, Yellow Antwerp should be included, as well as 

 the autumn bearing sorts, and the fruit must be then 

 picked like strawberries, with the stalk on. Owing td 

 its delicate character, the raspberry should not be sent, 

 except in tubs for preserving, to very distant markets^ 

 and dessert fruit should be picked as wanted into small 

 punnets. 



