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portant point of difference between the two species is in 

 hardiness. Few, if any of the European varieties can be 

 depended upon to endure our winters without protection, 

 except in the most favorable localities, and even then 

 they are unreliable. It is also probable that our hot, dry 

 summers are an unfavorable factor as well as the cold of 

 winter. No better evidence of their lack of adaptability 

 to our climate is needed than the fact that while there 

 have been something like one hundred varieties belonging 

 to this species introduced in the United States, probably 

 not over five or six are grown at all at the present time, 

 and these only in a very small way. The fruit is generally 

 conceded to be of better quality than our American reds, 

 and if the plants had proved satisfactory, this species 

 would naturally have been in the ascendency. 



The native red raspberry of the United States has been 

 much longer in cultivation than the black raspberry or the 

 blackberry, but is much younger than the European berry. 

 In spite of its youthfulness, it has long since outrun its 

 European cousin and gained control of the commercial 

 red raspberry-growing of the country. While it may be 

 slightly behind the European berry in quality of fruit, it 

 is so thoroughly at home, and adapts itself so readily to 

 cultivation, that it has become a far more desirable market 

 berry. One great objection to the red raspberry as a 

 market fruit is its long bearing season, necessitating so 

 many pickings to secure the crop. The American sorts 

 have the advantage in this regard, although even they 

 ripen too unevenly. 



The number of varieties of the hybrid, Rubus neglectus, 

 type, or Purple-cane family, as it was formerly called, is 



