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RASPBERRIES. 



1 NOTICE your remarks on this fruit, in your article on " The Profitable- 

 ness of Fruit-culture," in the January number of the Journal ; and if, as 

 is there surmised, many are kept from planting it because of the supposed 

 necessity of " covering the canes in winter," it is certainly time their views 

 were corrected, and that noble fruit placed where it justly belongs, — among 

 the truly hardy fruits of our land. I am very ready to acknowledge, that, like 

 wheat, corn, apples, strawberries, and, in fact, every thing that grows out of 

 the ground, it will "produce the best results " if it has just the right soil, 

 location, protection, and cultivation ; but I also insist, that, in an equal de- 

 gree with the hardiest of our fruits, the raspbeny possesses the vigor and 

 strength to endure our Northern winters. 



Here, where the Lawton Blackberry is almost invariably injured, we meet 

 with success in its cultivation : it has become such a favorite, on account 

 of its profitableness, that we permit it to occupy one-half of our ground. 



The varieties thus far fruited by us are the Doolittle and Miami Black- 

 caps, Purple-cane, Kirtland, Philadelphia, Golden-cap, Ohio Ever-bearing, 

 and Catawissa, all of which prove hardy and desirable. The last two are 



