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raspberries early, and, although they ripen early and ought 

 to be hardy, there are some diseases of the foliage of the 

 raspberry, and oftentimes, with a cessation of the culture 

 and a little disease on the foliage, they will drop. They 

 ripen and will pull through all right this year, but in the 

 spring they are all dead ; and the neighbors who kept up 

 their culture later, kept up a vigorous growth and a good, 

 vigorous foliage on them until October or even later, find 

 their raspberries come out better in the spring. It practi- 

 cally pays to cultivate the raspberry late in the season ; keep 

 it growing, apply more nitrogenous fertilizer, if you will, 

 after bearing, and it will give a healthy foliage late in the 

 season, and that means good vigor to stand frosts of winter 

 and come out alive in the spring. 



Raspberries are profitable, because they will stay a long 

 time and keep bearing year after year for eight or ten years. 

 The strawberry wants renewing nearly every year, although 

 some varieties will fruit better when two or three years old ; 

 but the raspberry will yield just as well when five, six, eight, 

 and perhaps ten years old, and is therefore more profitable 

 because renewal expenses do not come often. 



We are using more and more the quart basket to market 

 that delicate and very tender fruit, the raspberry, in, and it 

 is a great mistake. If you put them in a quart, and jar 

 them a little, every one will settle, — and the people who 

 buy them won't settle. The profitable days of the red rasp- 

 berry along the Hudson River were when they used thirds 

 and pints, but there has been a tendency to do away with 

 the thirds and pints and market entirely in (juai-ts. I think 

 it a serious mistake to try to deliver the delicate raspberry 

 to the consumer, either direct or through the jobber, in large 

 packages ; better put them in small packages. And the 

 same cooling wants to take place as in the case of the straw- 

 berry, and, in fact, in the case of all small berries. 



The blackberry may be grown profitably on a much lighter 

 soil than either the strawlierry or the raspberry. While it 

 needs moisture, it seems to root deeper, and can get more 

 from the soil. It can be grown over a wider range of terri- 

 tory than the raspberry, because it can be grown so extremely 



