IN MY LADY'S GARDEN 



Autumnal fruiting raspberries are now very plentiful. 

 Of these the variety October Red is one of the best. Belle 

 de Fontenay, too, and October Yellow are very useful up to 

 November. By judicious planting and selection of the 

 best varieties, it is not difficult to secure a succession of 

 the fruits of various members of the rubus family from the 

 end of June until frosts set in ; yet how seldom are our 

 gardens thus provided ! The white Magnum Bonum rasp- 

 berry is one of the earliest to ripen ; Superlative, the finest 

 of the crimson varieties, soon following it ; and Semper 

 Fidelis (an old variety which ripens later than the rest) will 

 carry on the supply when the others are over, if the canes 

 and new growths are cut completely down in November, for 

 they bear late fruit on the shoots made during the spring. 



The fine berries of the loganberry, too, are available from 

 the end of June for about six weeks, and this new fruit (a 

 hybrid between an American blackberry and a red rasp- 

 berry should be far better known than it is. The berries 

 are large and mulberry-like in colour, and the plant is 

 extremely vigorous, producing a far larger crop than the 

 raspberry if properly cultivated. It has a luscious yet 

 rather acid flavour, and is especially useful for tarts and 

 preserves, also making a handsome dessert fruit. 



Then with August the delicious fruit of the Japanese 

 wineberry (Rubus Phoenicolasius) comes in, the season 

 extending for four or five weeks ; and this is a plant which 

 is so decorative in itself that it may well be grown for its 

 handsome appearance alone. The long canes it throws 

 up in the summer are covered with a deep crimson to- 

 mentum, and the fine foliage is silver lined, whilst the 

 innumerable sprays of fruit (produced at the axils of the 

 leaves of last year) are first coral colour, then turning to a 

 clear cornelian tint. Each berry is the size of a rather small 

 raspberry, and is without core ; the flavour is most refresh- 

 ing, sub -acid, and different from that of any other fruit ; 

 and the plant is quite hardy, athough it should not be 

 planted in a position exposed to the east winds of spring, 

 as it starts early into growth. 



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