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experience in the creation business." 

 How can a mere man meet such 

 logic ? Can he assert that Strawberries 

 are invariably clean? No; they are 

 often gritty. Can he claim that they 

 are easy to gather ? No; for after picking 

 an hour or more he's often yearned for 

 a more supple, though none the less 

 manly, frame. As to range of flavors 

 of such fruit, are not honors about 

 even? And as to colors, has not the 

 Raspberry decidedly the advantage 

 with its red, yellow, purple, black 

 and varying intermediate tints against 

 the Strawberry's reds and pinks with 

 only an occasional albino? Then can 

 he be blamed if. like Falstaff, he proves 

 that "the better part of valor is discre- 

 tion" and though vanquished, bobs up 

 serenely, after the coast has cleared, 

 with untarnished and unshaken loyalty 

 to the Strawberry? 



My reader must not conclude from 

 the foregoing banter that I seek to be- 

 little the Raspberry. Really I think 

 no home garden is complete without it. 



Fig. 117. Well-rooted Black Raspberry "tip." 

 Note bud near the base of the stem 



Fig. 1 1 6. Red Raspberries are 

 determined to "sucker" 



Indeed, if I had space I 

 would plant a dozen, or a 

 score, each of early and 

 late, of black and red 

 varieties, as many of one 

 of the purple kinds, 

 mainly for canning, and 

 also of Golden Queen, the 

 only really good yellow 

 one, that is six kinds 

 or more ! 



In method of growth 



