292 FRUIT GARDEN DISPLAYED. 



rally of a ftronger and taller growth than moft 

 of the others, and the fruit larger, f'-f a golden 

 yellow colour, and is elkerae^ of fuperior 

 goodnefs ; and the twice-bearing forts are in 

 ^llimation for their finguiar property of bear- 

 ing two crops of fruit tl)e fame year, the firil 

 produclion being in July and beginning of 

 Auguft, and the fecond in September: are all 

 of hardy growth, will fucceed in any common 

 foil and fuuation, both in open expofures, 

 and in Ihady borders, &c. though it is mofl 

 eligible to have the principal fupply in a free 

 expofure open to the fun, to ripen the fruit 

 in the bell: perfedion ; are generally planted 

 in the kitchen-garden, in rows four feet and 

 S. Jialf by a yard diftance ; and fome raay alfo 

 be difpofed in the borders, &c. in fmgle ilools, 

 at ten, ffLeen, or twenty feet diftance; like- 

 wife are fomecimes planted a few in efpaliers, 

 aiid againfl: South and other walls for early 

 2nd late fruit, and of improved fize and fla- 

 vour. 



All the forts of rafpberries grow with feve- 

 ral flems or fuckers produced from the root 

 every year, in Spring and Summer, which 

 when a year old produce the fruit, and at the 

 fame time a fuccefTion of young ftems rife 

 from the bottom, and in Winter following 

 thofe which bore the fruit lali Summer wholly 

 d«cay, and are then, cut down clofe to the 

 ground, leaving feveral of the ftrongeil: young 

 ihoocs on each ftock to bear the enluingyear ; 

 zr.d thus the fucceifion of bearing fhoots is 

 continued. 



They 



