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THE RED ANTWERP RASPBERRY. 



Red Antwerp Raspberry. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. p. 196. 

 Large Red Antwerp Raspberry. Forst/th's Treatise, ed. 5, 

 p. 242. 



This variety has now been long established in our 

 Gardens : it was the first improvement in size on the 

 common native red Raspberry of our woods, and it 

 maintains its station with the market gardeners, 

 because it is an abundant bearer, ripens early, and 

 bears carriage well. 



In situations where the plants grow with much 

 vigour, a crop is sometimes produced in the autumn 

 on the shoots of the year ; this is, however, at all 

 times but a scanty one, and too small to entitle the 

 kind to the name of a double-bearing variety. 



Canes strong and long, yellowish green, slightly 

 glaucous, occasionally tinged with purple, covered 

 below with dark-brown bristles, which decrease in 

 quantity upwards : early in the autumn the canes 

 change colour, and become entirely brown sooner 

 than those of most others. 



Bearing Wood vigorous, and nearly smooth. 



Leaves large, slightly rugose, plaited, irregularly 

 serrated, dark green. 



