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from my canes five successive weeks Tt requires winter pro 

 tection and well pays for the trouble. Where this variety suc- 

 ceeds, it may be planted largely with confidence, as the fruit is 

 first-class for home use or market. 



The amateur will scarcely ask for anything better than 

 Brinckle's Orange, where it can be grown. 



We all know about the old f^ishioned blackcaps which we 

 delighted to gather in childhood ; and in moist, rich spots I have 

 seen wild bushes clambering over a fence that produced as large 

 fruit as any of the vaunted kinds sent out from nurseries with 

 great parade. At least they seem so to me now, seen through 

 quite a long vista of years. I know however that this kind of 

 distance increases rather than diminishes the objects of our early 

 wonderment. 



The leading variety of this class is unfortunately named 

 " Doolittle," which however has done so much that it ranks first 

 in vigor and productiveness, and is the favorite for market. 

 Next in value comes the considerably larger and later berry — 

 the McCormickor Manmioth Cluster. With these two kinds one 

 might be quite content. But there are others, and also new 

 claimants, that are well worth a trial. 



At the close of this chapter will be found a fuller list of those 

 that are now somewhat prominently before the public. 



Soil and Situation. 



The red raspberries, especially the choicer kinds, prefer a 

 rich moist loam, and will do well even upon quite a stiff, cold clay, 

 if it is not wet. In every case there must be thorough drainage. 

 Upon light, dry, sandy soil, the large foreign varieties cannot be 

 raised profitably except quite far to the north, and in the south 

 they can scarcely be grown at all, under any circumstances. 

 But the vigorous native red raspberries, like the Susqueco and 

 Highland Hardy, or the blackcap family, will flourish almost 

 anywhere, north or south. Still, if one has a deep, rich, moist 

 field or garden plot, there can be grown premium crops. Rasp- 



