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tinuea long ia bearing, and where it thrives is very productive. Like 

 all the foreign varieties it requires high culture. 



Cuthbert. — The best market raspberry I have ever seen. As firm 

 as the Brandywine, a third larger and almost doubly productive. It 

 does comparatively well on light, thin soils — better than any other 

 kind that I have seen — but in moist, loamy land, its yield is simply 

 enormous. It is such a strong grower after once becoming rooted in 

 the soil, that it has little need of fertilizers. One of its best charac- 

 teristics is its power to endure the hot sun unharmed, and I think it 

 will prove better adapted to the South than any other good rasp- 

 berry. It is also the hardiest raspberry that I know anything about 

 As I have seen the berries on my place they average as large as the 

 H. R Antwerp ; bright red when ripe, turning a little dark when 

 overripe. As Dr. Thurber states it is the firmest of the red raspber- 

 ries; and it is good enough in flavor to satisfy most people for the 

 home garden. It is rather late in maturing. I sincerely think it is 

 the most valuable raspberry yet introduced. Charles Downing says 

 of it, " I consider it the most promising raspberry before the public 

 as far as yet tested. The fruit is large and very firm, and the plants, 

 as I have seen them, are vigorous growers and exceedingly produc- 

 tive." 



Belle de Fontenay. — Some assert that this variety and the Ama- 

 zon are ideniical. A large berry but not very firm, deep crimson, ir- 

 regular, long-conical, and of good flavor. The canes are very strong 

 and stocky, the young shoots producing a second crop in Autumn. 

 It is the best of the fall-bearing varieties. It throws up an endless 

 number of suckers, which must be cut off as soon as they appear, if 

 much fruit is desired. By cutting ofi'the canes even with the ground 

 in Spring, the new shoots will produce a large crop in the autumn. 



Hornet. — Very large and fine, but very uncertain in most locali- 

 ties. 



Brinckle's Orange. — The amateur's variety. Orange in color, 

 large, obtuse-conical, and of delicious flavor. The canes are strong 

 and the plant very vigorous and productive. 



