eight] strawberries AND THEIR KIN 



late variety is the Nemaha. This is a favorite 

 berry for market, because the fruit is of the highest 

 quaHty, and carries well. The bushes are very 

 strong growers, very healthy, and quite hardy. A 

 new variety called the Cumberland is said to be the 

 largest of all blackcaps. It is probably a seedling 

 of the Gregg, and very much like that variety. The 

 canes are stout and stocky, producing immense 

 crops. The probabilities are that we shall have 

 new seedlings in this family of blacks — that is, the 

 Gregg family — covering the whole season, and 

 even preferable to those I have named. A very 

 common and very excellent sort is the Palmer — a 

 berry that ripens among the very earliest. 



It is impossible for those who have small gar- 

 dens, and pay little attention to them, to grow 

 black raspberries with any such freedom as they 

 grow red. The red reproduces itself by suckers, 

 and in that way the old rows can be sustained for 

 years by simply cutting out annually the dead 

 canes. The black raspberry, on the contrary, 

 propagates only by rooting at the tips of the canes. 

 If you desire to multiply them, you must see that 

 the tips touch the ground and are not disturbed 

 while rooting. An old stool of black raspberries 



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