THE RASPBERRY. 



on any land which will produce a burdock or a 

 mullein-stalk. In fact, this question of variety 

 chiefly determines our chances of success and the 

 nature of our treatment of the fruit. The reader, 

 at the start, should be enabled to distinguish the 

 three classes of raspberries grown in this country. 



As was true of grapes, our fathers first endeav- 

 ored to supply their gardens from foreign nurseries, 

 neglecting the wild species with which our woods 

 and roadsides abounded. The raspberry of Europe 

 (Rubus idceus) has been developed, and in many in- 

 stances enfeebled, by ages of cultivation. Never- 

 theless, few other fruits have shown equal power to 

 adapt themselves to our soil and climate, and we 

 have obtained from foreign sources many valuable 

 kinds, as, for instance, the Antwerp, which for 

 weeks together annually taxed the carrying power 

 of Hudson River steamers. In quality these for- 

 eign kinds have never been surpassed ; but almost 

 invariably they have proved tender and fastidious, 

 thriving well in some localities, and failing utterly 

 (except under the most skilful care) in others. 

 The frosts of the North killed them in winter, and 

 Southern suns shrivelled their foliage in summer. 

 Therefore they were not raspberries for the million, 

 but for those who resided in favored regions, and 

 were willing to bestow upon them much care and 

 high culture. 



