THE RASPBERRY AND SOME 

 ODD CROSSES 



MUCH BETTERMENT AND A FEW 

 BAFFLING PROBLEMS 



ET us take up the story of small-fruit de- 

 velopment where the preceding chapter 

 left it. We are still concerned with the 

 blackberry, but we now have to do also with the 

 companion fruit, which is obviously a not very 

 distant relative, yet which has certain typical 

 peculiarities that mark it as belonging to an 

 altogether different branch of the race of bram- 

 bles. Most conspicuous of these is the fact that 

 the ripe raspberry separates from the receptacle 

 when picked, whereas the blackberry is per- 

 manently attached to the receptacle. 



The raspberry, unlike the blackberry, has 

 been cultivated in Europe from an early period. 

 The red raspberry, in particular, grows wild all 

 over Europe, from Greece to Spain and north- 

 ward to Norway and Sweden. It was originally 

 christened Rubus Idceus, after Mount Ida in 



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