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delicious fruit long out of season. It certainly is the best of 

 the fall-bearing kinds, and deserves a place in every garden. 

 There are more profitable market varieties, however ; but, if 

 the suckers are vigorously destroyed, and the bearing canes 

 cut well back, the fruit is often very large, abundant, and 

 attractive, bringing the highest prices. As a plantation 

 grows older, the tendency to sucker immoderately decreases, 

 and the fruit improves. 



The Belle de Pallua and Hornet are also French varie- 

 ties that in som^e sections yield fine fruit, but are too uncer- 

 tain to become favorites in our country. 



I have a few canes of a French variety that Mr. Downing 

 imported a number of years since, and of which the name 

 has been lost. It certainly is the finest raspberry I have 

 ever seen, and I am testing its adaptation to various soils. 



Having named the best- known foreign varieties, I will 

 now turn to R. Sfrigosus, or our native species, which is 

 scattered almost everywhere throughout the North. In its 

 favorite haunts by road-side hedge and open glade in the 

 forest, a bush is occasionally found producing such fine fruit 

 that the delighted discoverer marks it, and in the autumn 

 transfers it to his garden. As a result, a new variety is often 

 heralded throughout the land. A few of these wildings have 

 become widely popular, and among them the Brandywine 

 probably has had the most noted career. 



Mr. William Parry, of New Jersey, who has been largely 

 interested in this variety, writes to me as follows : — 



" I have never been able to trace the origin of this berry. It 

 attracted attention some eight or ten years since in the Wilming- 

 ton market, and was for a time called the ' Wilmington.'" 



Subsequently Mr. Edward Tatnall, of that city, under- 

 took to introduce it by the name of Susqueco, the Indian 



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