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THE RASPBERRY^^S= I2Q 



requires richer soil and better treatment than the 

 Cuthbert, and it remains to be seen whether it is 

 equally hardy. It is well worth winter protection 

 if it is not. It is not a suitable berry for the 

 home garden if no other is grown, for the reason 

 that it matures its entire crop within a brief time, 

 and thus would give a family but a short season 

 of raspberries. Cultivated in connection with 

 the Cuthbert, it would be admirable, for it is very 

 early, and would produce its fruit before the Cuth- 

 berts were ripe. Unitedly the two varieties would 

 give a family six weeks of raspberries. There are 

 scores of other kinds in this class, and some are 

 very good indeed, well worth a place in an ama- 

 teur's collection ; but the two already named are 

 sufficient to supply a family with excellent fruit. 



Of the third class of red raspberries, repre- 

 senting our pure native species, I should recom- 

 mend only one variety, the Turner; and that is 

 so good that it deserves a place in every collection. 

 It certainly is a remarkable raspberry, and has an 

 unusual history, which I have given in my work 

 " Success with Small Fruits." I doubt whether 

 there is a hardier raspberry in America, one that 

 can be grown so far to the north, and, what is still 

 more in its favor, so far to the south. In the latter 

 region it is known as the Southern Thornless. The 

 fact that it is almost wholly without spines is a 



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