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It would be well to make careful inquiries be- 

 fore setting out largely of any one kind, but for 

 the home supply and a local market the Clark 

 may be depended on ; and if the Hudson River 

 Antwerp does well in your locality, you need 

 ask no better variety. My experience with the 

 white varieties is, that they are too soft even for 

 the local market, but they make a pretty change 

 in the home garden. The Franconia (red) has 

 proved an excellent berry with me, firm and 

 productive. A new red variety called the Na- 

 omi is very highly spoken of. For field cult- 

 ure, raspberries should be set out four feet each 

 way, so that the plough and cultivator can run 

 between them. 



The Philadelphia, Purple Cane, and Black- 

 cap varieties need no protection in winter, and 

 the same is also said of the Naomi. But even 

 though it is claimed that the Clark and Franco- 

 nia are perfectly hardy, I found it to pay to lay 



