88 THE EVOLUTIONIST AT LARGE. 



plant for Southern Britain a wild raspberry- 

 bush in full fruit. Raspberries are common 

 enough in Scotland among heaps of stones 

 on the windiest hillsides ; but the south of 

 England is too warm and sickly for their 

 robust tastes, and they can only be found here 

 in a few bleak spots like the stony edges of 

 this weather-beaten down above the chine. 

 The fruit itself is quite as good as the garden 

 variety, for cultivation has added little to the 

 native virtues of the raspberry. Good old 

 Izaac Walton is not ashamed to quote a cer- 

 tain quaint saying of one Dr. Boteler con- 

 cerning strawberries, and so I suppose I need 

 not be afraid to quote it after him. * Doubt- 

 less,' said the Doctor, ' God could have 

 made a better berry, but doubtless also God 

 never did.' Nevertheless, if you try the 

 raspberry, picked fresh, with plenty of good 

 country cream, you must allow that it runs its 

 sister fruit a neck-and-neck race. 



To compare the structure of a raspberry 

 with that of a strawberry is a very instructive 



