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season from May till August, when apples are sufficiently 

 advanced to take its place. 



THE RASPBERRY. 



Both the Red and Black Raspberries are favorably known 

 as a wild American fruit. As a market fruit near the 

 large cities, it is very profitable. It prefers a light, warm, 

 dry soil, rich and thoroughly loosened. The best varieties 

 grown are the Red and Yellow Antwerps, which produce 

 abundantly, and are of fine flavor ; the Franconia, a fine, 

 large, purple fruit ; and the Fastolf, a late English Red va- 

 riety of superior size and flavor. The above kinds are all 

 hardy in latitude 43 north. They are propagated by 

 suckers, and should be planted three feet apart if in hills, 

 and four feet if in rows. The stalk lives but two years. 

 The first season it shoots up from the root, and makes its 

 growth. The next spring it should be topped to three feet 

 in height, the old stock cut out, and the bearing ones 

 (which ought never to exceed three or four in a clump), 

 should be securely tied to a stake or trellis. If the ground 

 be well hoed, they will bear profusely. 



THE STRAWBERRY. 



This delicious and wholesome fruit is rapidly spreading 

 in garden cultivation throughout the United States. It will 

 flourish in almost any good soil which is not too cold or 

 wet. The plants should be set in rows two feet asunder, 

 and one foot apart in the rows, kept clear from weeds, and 

 the runners cut of! once or twice in the growing season. 

 Beds will last from three to six years, depending in a mea- 

 sure, on the mode of cultivation. The fruit is in season 

 from three to six weeks, according to their kinds. Many 

 horticulturists have found difficulty in procuring an abun- 

 dant supply of the strawberry, which is probably owing (when 

 other circumstances are favorable), to an improper arrange- 

 ment of the male and female plants. Hovey's Seedling and 

 several others demand the presence of the male plant from 

 some other variety, to fertilize them. The most popular 

 for the market are sub-varieties of the Scarlet, Pine, Chili, 

 and Wood. The Methven Castle, Keene's, Hovey's Seed- 

 lings and Boston Pine are among the most highly celebrated. 



THE AMERICAN CRANBERRY (Oxycocus macrocarpus) 



Yields one of the most delicious of our tarts. It is found 

 in great abundance in many low, swampy grounds in our 



