364 On the cultivation of the Raspberry, 



semination, and be of interest to your readers, you are at lib- 

 erty to publish it in your useful Magazine. 



I remain, yours, with much respect, A. H. Ernst. 



Spring Garden^ near Cincinnati., ) 

 Ohio, August 31, 1842. \ 



Art. III. On the cultivation of the Raspberry. 

 By the Editor. 



In our last number, we gave an article on the cultivation 

 of the currant. It was the first of a series of papers we in- 

 tend to offer upon the cultivation of all the fruits of the gar- 

 den, which have not been previously written upon by our- 

 selves. We now proceed to treat upon the growth of the 

 raspberry. 



The raspberry, like the strawberry and currant, and other 

 small fruits, the gooseberry excepted, has been greatly neg- 

 lected in its cultivation. Though common in every garden, 

 and every where esteemed, next to the strawberry, for its 

 rich and handsome fruit, yet few individuals have attempted 

 improved methods of growth, by which the size, beauty, ex- 

 cellence, and productiveness of the berries may be increased 

 to a much greater degree than they are generally seen in our 

 gardens. 



The raspberry is as susceptible of improvement as the 

 strawberry: yet, while in the latter we have the beautiful 

 Keen's seedling and our own variety, contrasting with such 

 marked superiority over the small and inferior berries of the 

 older sorts, the same varieties of the raspberry are now cul- 

 tivated that were common twenty or thirty years ago, and 

 they are still deemed the most desirable sorts. The same 

 attention bestowed on this fruit, that has been devoted to the 

 gooseberry, would undoubtedly have resulted in the produc- 

 tion of varieties much superior to those at present grown. 



The raspberry, like the strawberry, is a native of low and 

 partially shady situations, growing in boggy or soft black soils, 

 which allow its roots to strike deep, and throw up a free 

 growth of its vigorous suckers. It is only in such situations, 

 in their wild state, that the plants are found productive; on 



