RED BEET. 



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supply in September and onwards ; and 

 Yellow Four Seasons is also a good bearer, 

 yielding a nice sweet fruit. The " Glen- 

 field" is a black raspberry and the only 

 kind of its peculiar colour. 



As a summing up of what has been said 

 above, the following will show at a glance 

 the best kinds of raspberries now in culti- 

 vation : 



i. Baumforth's Seed- 

 ing. 

 7. Belle de Fontenay. 



3. Carter's Prolific. 



4 . Fastolf. 



5. Glenfield (the only 



Black Raspberry). 



6. Lord Beaconsfield. 



7. Marlborough. 



8. Northumberland 



Fillbasket. 



9. Prince of Wales. 



10. Red Antwerp 



11. Semper Fidelis. 



12. Superlative. 



13. White or Yellow 



Antwerp. 



14. White Magnum 



Bonum. 



15. Yellow Four Sea- 



sons. 



16. Yellow Globe. 



Red Beet. See Beet, Red. 



Red Spider (Acarus tellarius). 



This is one of the most baneful of the 

 insect pests that the gardener has to deal 

 with either in the open air or in green- 

 houses or hothouses, in which it is very 

 prevalent when they have been kept too 

 hot or too dry. There are various acari or 

 mites which infest and injure plants, but 

 this is accounted the most prevalent and 

 therefore the worst of them. They are 

 almost invisible even to the keenest vision, 

 but their presence is indicated by the state 

 of the leaves on which they are, and which 

 present a burnt or scorched appearance, 

 being brown, red, or yellowish in colour 

 in patches, or over the entire leaf. Green- 

 house walls should be dressed with a 

 mixture of soft soap, sulphur, and clay, 

 b^at up to the consistency of paint with 

 warm water, and flie same dressing may be 

 used for trees. Fumigation with flowers of 

 sulphur vaporised on hot plates is also 

 useful, the houses, pits, &c., being care- 

 fully closed while the work of destruction 

 is in progress. After fumigation the plants 



should be well syringed from time to time 

 with fresh clean water. 



Reel and Line for Garden Use. 



Practically, a couple of stakes and a 

 piece of strong cord are all that are abso- 

 lutely necessary for marking out a straight 

 line between any two points, but far less 

 time is taken up in winding a line round a 

 frame which forms part of the garden reel 

 than in turning and turning it round a stake 

 a little thicker than one's thumb. The 

 shape shown in the accompanying illustra- 

 tion exhibits a very common form of garden 

 reel and line, but 

 whatever the form 

 may be the principle 

 is alike in all. The 

 reel consists of a 

 central stake or pin 

 of iron, sharpened 

 to a point at the 

 lower end, and so 

 constructed above 

 that an iron frame, 

 consisting of top, 

 bottom, and two 

 sides, revolves upon 

 it easily. The pin 

 passes through holes 

 made for its recep- 

 tion in the top and 

 bottom piece of the GARDEJ[ , 

 frame. One end 



of the line is secured to the pin or tied 

 to one side of the frame, and then wound 

 round the sides of the frame. As the frame 

 may be made to revolve on the pin with 

 great rapidity, it is manifest that the line, 

 even if entire-ly unwound, can be wound up 

 again with great rapidity. The other end 

 of the line is tied to an eye projecting from 

 another stake or pin, as shown in the illus- 

 tration. When it is necessary to stretch 

 the line, either for the purpose of denning 

 the edge of a path or border, or for tracing 



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