VI TREATISE ON FRUITS. 



at trifling charge, with the further advantage 

 of cool and natural soil. 



It is easy to prove, that Strawberries 

 are, in general, natives of woods, and con- 

 sequently of cool soils and shady situations ; 

 therefore are incapable of extreme heat or 

 drought. 



RASPBERRY, 



Although not generally understood, is 

 evidently a hog soil plant, or plant of shade by 

 nature ; the original red sort growing wild in 

 woods where the soil is cool and soft, as in the 

 north of England; and they also succeed 

 beyond conception on fenny and boggy soils, 

 even contiguous to very large bodies of 

 standing water, where the soak is constant, 

 and in the winter season excessive. 



In such situations, both wood and fruit 

 will generally prove doubly large, and pro- 

 lific in the extreme: whereas, those planted 

 on hot and dry soils produce only the most 

 inferior and under-sized fruit. 



