VARIETIES. 515 



Canes moderately strong, yellowish green, becoming pale brown 

 early in autumn, covered below with dark brown bristles ; but 

 the upper portions, especially, of the bearing wood, nearly 

 smooth. Leaves large, plaited. The fruit commences ripen- 

 ing about the 10th of July, rather before the other varieties. 



The COMMON RED ANTWERP, as known in this country, is a 

 very inferior variety of the foregoing, with fruit half the 

 size, less conical, and canes stronger, and more inclined to 

 branch. It is not worth cultivating when compared with the 

 foregoing, though it is almost universally known as the Red 

 Antwerp, in this country whence we are often obliged to call 

 the foregoing the true, or New Red Antwerp, to prevent its 

 being confounded with the common and inferior sort. 



2. ANTWERP, YELLOW. Thomp. Lind. 



White Antwerp. 

 Double Bearing Yellow. 



The Yellow Antwerp is the largest and finest light coloured 

 raspberry, and indispensable to every good garden. 



Fruit large, nearly conical, pale yellow, sweet and excellent. 

 Canes strong and vigorous, light yellow, with many bristles or 

 spines. On successive suckers, which shoot up, this raspberry 

 will frequently continue somewhat in bearing for months. 



3. AMERICAN RED. 



Common Red. 

 English Red (of some). 

 Rubus Strigosus (Michx)* 



The Common Red Raspberry is a native of this, and all the 

 middle states. It ripens nearly a week earlier than the Ant- 

 werps, bears well, and though inferior in flavour and size 

 to these sorts, is esteemed by many persons, particularly for 

 flavouring liqueurs. 



Fruit of medium size, roundish, light red, pleasant sub-acid 

 in flavour. Shoots very vigorous, long, upright, and branch- 

 ing, grows from six to ten feet high. Light shining brown, with 

 purplish spines. Leaves narrow, light green. 



4. AMERICAN BLACK* 



Common Black-cap. 

 Black Raspberry. 

 Thimble-berry. 

 Rubus Occidentalis. 



* This strongly resembles the Common Red Raspberry of Europe, .U. 

 Idous* but according to Torrey and Gray is quite distinct 



