324 HISTORY OF FRUITS. 



Dr. Turner says, in his Herbal of the year 1568, " the 

 raspis is found in many gardines of England ; the berries 

 are rede." 



The large kinds of raspberries, both red and yellow, 

 were brought from Antwerp to this country. 



The yellow, or white raspberry, is most admired at the 

 dessert : indeed all the white fruits of the berry kind are 

 sweeter than the coloured, but other fruits that are co- 

 loured are generally sweeter than the white. 



The red raspberry is considered the finest for flavour- 

 ing ices, jams, &c. A third kind is cultivated, which 

 produces two crops a-year, but we have seldom met with 

 the October raspberry possessing much flavour. 



Raspberries are much cultivated in the neighbourhood 

 of Isleworth and Brentford ; from whence those are sent 

 to London in swing carts, which are used by the distillers 

 for making raspberry brandy, raspberry vinegar, &c. as 

 also those used by confectioners and pastry-cooks ; but 

 the raspberries which are intended for the table, are 

 brought by women on their heads: their load consists of 

 a round, or basket, containing twelve gallons, of three 

 pints to a gallon ; and although the distance is ten miles 

 from Isleworth to Covent-Garden market, they regularly 

 perform the journey in two hours, for which they are paid 

 three shillings and sixpence. From Hammersmith these 

 industrious women will take a. load three times a-day, for 

 which they receive eighteen-pence per load. These fe- 

 male fruit-porters come to the vicinity of London for the 

 season, from Wiltshire, Shropshire, and Wales : in their 

 long journeys they seldom walk at a less pace than five 

 miles per hour. 



The dietetic and medicinal virtues of raspberries being 

 the same as those of the strawberry, will be noticed in, 

 the history of that fruit. 



" Raspberry and strawberry wines," says Dr. Short, 



