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The probabilities are that they will germinate early in the 

 spring and produce canes strong enough to bear the second 

 year. If the seed is from a kind that cannot endure frost, 

 the young plant should receive thorough winter protection. 

 There is nothing better than a covering of earth. In the 

 spring of the second year, cut the young plant down to the 

 ground, and it will send up a strong, vigorous cane, whose 

 appearance and fruit will give a fair suggestion of its value 

 the third year. Do not be sure of a prize, even though the 

 berries are superb and the new variety starts off most vigo- 

 rously. Let me give a bit of experience. In a fine old 

 garden, located in the centre of the city of Newburgh, N. Y., 

 my attention was attracted by the fruit of a raspberry bush 

 whose roots were so interlaced with those of a grape-vine 

 that they could not be separated. It scarcely seemed to 

 have a fair chance to live at all, and yet it was loaded with 

 the largest and most delicious red raspberries that I had 

 then ever seen. It was evidently a chance, and very dis- 

 tinct seedling. I obtained from Mr. T. H. Roe, the propri- 

 etor of the garden, permission to propagate the variety, and 

 in the autumn removed a number of the canes to my place 

 at Cornwall. My first object was to learn whether it was 

 hardy, and therefore not the slightest protection was given 

 the canes at Newburgh, nor even to those removed to my 

 own place, some of which were left four feet high for the 

 sake of this test. The winter that followed was one of the 

 severest known ; the mercury sank to 30° below zero, but 

 not a plant at either locality was injured ; and in the old 

 garden a cane fourteen feet long, that rested on the grape- 

 arbor, was alive to the tip, and in July was loaded with the 

 most beautiful fruit I had ever seen. It was uninjured by 

 the test of another winter, and all who saw and tasted the 

 fruit were enthusiastic in its praise. The Massachusetts 



