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Fig. 1 14. Please pass the powdered sugar and the 

 cream 



year-old nursery trees are 

 better than older ones for 

 planting, and a height of 

 12 to 15 inches better than 

 more for the length of the 

 trunk. 



Among the score of 

 varieties listed in Ameri- 

 can fruit books only two 

 are really very popular, 

 though four or five others 

 VAN DEMAN, REA, 

 BENTLEY, MEECH and 

 FULLER are grown to 

 some extent. These two, 

 ORANGE and CHAMPION, 

 are both large, yellow, 

 tender fleshed, excellent flavored varieties which ripen about mid- 

 Autumn. The former is somewhat the earlier and the larger. Well- 

 grown specimens often weigh a pound. 



RASPBERRIES > 



I recently lost an argument with a lady who insisted that the 

 Raspberry is superior to the Strawberry and that Henry Ward 

 Beecher was mistaken when he declared "the Lord might have made 

 a better fruit than the Strawberry, but he never did." Furthermore, 

 she asserts that simply because "Beecher ought to know" he has, 

 on account of this dictum, led countless other mortals to err. She 

 claims, "He ought to have known better. A moment's reasoning 

 would have convinced 

 him. For Raspberries not 

 only have a finer and 

 wider range of color and 

 flavor but they are always 

 clean and they never break 

 one's back to gather. 

 Finally," she announced 

 as a clincher, "the fact 

 that their season follows 

 that of the Strawberry 

 proves that they were 

 created later and are 

 therefore the result of Fig. 115. Black Raspberries are wonderfully prolific 



