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spoiled. The raspberry season is also the hour 

 and opportunity for thunder-showers, whose great 

 slanting drops often splash the soil to surprising dis- 

 tances. Sugar-and-cream-coated, not mud-coated, 

 berries, if you please. 



In my remarks on raspberries I have not named 

 many varieties, and have rather laid stress on the 

 principles which may guide the reader in his 

 present and future selections of kinds. Sufficient 

 in number and variety to meet the needs of every 

 family have been mentioned. The amateur may 

 gratify his taste by testing other sorts described in 

 nurserymen's catalogues. Moreover, every year or 

 two some new variety will be heralded throughout 

 the land. The reader has merely to keep in mind 

 the three classes of raspberries described and their 

 characteristics, in order to make an intelligent 

 choice from old and new candidates for favor. 



It should also be remembered that the rasp- 

 berry is a Northern fruit. I am often asked in 

 effect, What raspberries do you recommend for 

 the Gulf States? I suppose my best reply would 

 be, What oranges do you think best adapted to 

 New York ? Most of the foreign kinds falter and 

 fail in New Jersey and Southern Pennsylvania; 

 the Cuthbert and its class can be grown much 

 farther south, while the Turner and the blackcaps 

 thrive almost to Florida. 



