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It is fragrant, sub-acid, and cooling ; allays heat and thirst. It 

 is much used in distilling. " Raspberry syrup is next to the 

 Strawberry in dissolving the tartar of the teeth ; and as, like 

 that fruit, it does not undergo the acetous fermentation in the 

 stomach, it is recommended to gouty and rheumatic patients." 

 Mchol enumerates twenty-three species and varieties of the 

 cultivated Raspberry, and twenty-one of the Ruhus ronce, or 

 Bramble; in the latter are included the American Red and 

 Black Raspberry, the Long Island and Virginian Raspberry ; 

 also the Ohio Ever-Bearing, and the Pennsylvania Raspberry. 

 The English varieties are, Early Small White ; Large White ; 

 Large Red ; most Large Red Antwerp ; Large Yellow Ant- 

 werp ; Cane, or smooth-stalked ; Twice-bearing White ; Twice- 

 bearing Red; Smooth Cane, twice-bearing; Woodward's Rasp- 

 berry ; Monthly, or Four Season ; Dwarf Red Cane ; Victoria 

 Raspberry ; Large Red Franconia ; Mason's Red Cluster ; 

 McKeon's Scarlet Prolific; Chili Red; Cornish Red; Cox's 

 Honey; Brentford Red; Brentford AVhite; Flesh-colored; 

 Barnet Red; Bromley Hill; Cretan Red; Prolific Red; 

 Canada Purple ; Rose-flowering, etc. 



HOW RASPBERRIES ARE PROPAGATED. 



The varieties can be perpetuated by young sucker-shoots, 

 rising plenteously from the root in spring and summer. 

 When these have completed one season's growth, they are 

 proper to detach with roots for planting, either in the autumn 

 of the same year, or the next spring, in March or early in 

 April. These new plants will bear some fruit the first year, 

 and furnish a succession of strong bottom-shoots for full bear- 

 ing the second season. New varieties are raised from seed, 

 and they come into bearing the second year. Some of the 

 American species are cultivated by layers, which produce fruit 

 the same year. 



Raspberry beds are in their prime about the third and 

 fourth year ; and, if well managed, continue in perfection five 

 or six years, after which they are apt to decline in growth, 



