FRUITS. 175 



THE RASPBERRY. 



Both Red and Black Raspberries are favorably known as 

 a wild American fruit. As market fruit near the large cities, 

 it is very profitable. It prefers a light, warm, dry soil, rich 

 and thoroughly loosened. The best varieties grown are the 

 Red and Yellow Antwerps, which produce abundantly and 

 are of fine flavor ; the Franconia, a tine, large, purple French 

 fruit ; and the Fastolf, a late English Red variety of superior 

 size and flavor. The above kinds are all hardy in latitude 

 43 north. They are propagated by suckers, and should be 

 planted three feet apart if in hills, and four fret if in rows. 

 The stalk lives but two years. The first season it shoots up 

 from the root and makes its growth. The next Spring it 

 should be topped to three feet in height, the old stock cut 

 out, and the bearing ones (which ought never to exceed three 

 or four in a clump) should be securely tied to a stake or 

 trellis. If the ground be well hoed they will bear profusely. 



THE STRAWBERRY. 



This delicious and wholesome fruit is rapidly spreading in 

 garden cultivation throughout the United States. It will 

 flourish in almost any good soil which is not too cold or wet. 

 The plants should be set in rows two fret asunder and one 

 foot apart in the rows, kept clear from weeds and the runners 

 cut off once or twice in the growing season. Beds will last 

 from three to six years, depending, in a measure, on the mode 

 of cultivation. The fruit is in season from three to six weeks, 

 according to their kinds. Many cultivators have found diffi- 

 culty in procuring an abundant supply of the strawberry, 

 which is probably owing (when other circumstances are fa- 

 vorable,) to an improper arrangement of the male and female 

 plants. Hovey's Seedling and several others demand the 

 presence of the male plant from some other variety, to fertilize 

 them. The most popular for the market are sub-varieties of 

 the Scarlet, Pine, Chili and Wood. Among these the Meth- 

 ven Castle, Keene's and Hovey's Seedlings are most highly 

 celebrated. 



THE AMERICAN CRANBERRY (Oxycocus macrocarpvs) 



Yields one of the most delicious of our tart esculents. It 

 is found in great abundance in many low, swampy grounds 

 in our northern and western states ; and although it has been 

 gathered from its native haunts from the earliest settlement 

 of the country, yet it is only within a few years that it has be- 



