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cast out long, prickly arms in all directions ; 

 but the bushes were pretty much all dead. 

 I have walked into them a good deal with 

 a pruning-knife ; but it is very much like 

 fighting original sin. The variety is one 

 that I can recommend. I think it is called 

 Brinckley's Orange. It is exceedingly pro- 

 lific, and has enormous stalks. The fruit 

 is also said to be good : but that does not 

 matter so much, as the plant does not often 

 bear in this region. The stalks seem to be 

 biennial institutions ; and as they get about 

 their growth one year, and bear the next 

 year, and then die, and the winters here 

 nearly always kill them, unless you take 

 them into the house (which is inconvenient 

 if you have a family of small children), it 

 is very difficult to induce the plant to flower 

 and fruit. This is the greatest objection 

 there is to this sort of raspberry. I think 

 of keeping these for discipline, and setting 

 out some others, more hardy sorts, for fruit 



