CHAPTER yil 



V ABIE TIES OF RASPBERRIES 



Varieties of most of the bush -fruits have long since 

 become so numerous that to attempt to describe them in 

 such a manner as would enable the grower to there- 

 by determine them is utterly impracticable, even if it 

 were possible for any one person to have access to 

 all the varieties. The reader may well ask, therefore, 

 Why attempt to describe them at all? There are 

 several reasons why a complete list of all varieties 

 which are or have been grown in this country, in so 

 far as it can be obtained, with brief descriptive notes 

 concerning them, is needed and likely to be of use. 

 Perhaps the most important of these is the need of 

 some means to prevent duplication of names and con- 

 sequent confusion, which must inevitably happen when 

 varieties become so numerous as they are now and 

 will continue to be. 



Then, too, it is of interest and profit to knoAV 

 something of the history of varieties, how they have 

 originated, and the sources from which they have 

 sprung, in order that w^e may thereby trace the evolu- 

 tion of our fruit-growing and the progress which has 

 been made. Furthermore, a brief description, with a 

 note concerning its origin and parentage, when these 

 are known, may at times enable the growler to decide 



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