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period of ripening, beginning to ripen about the first of July, and 

 having yet on the 24th of July an abundance of green berries and 

 blossom. This is very nice for the private garden, where one requires 

 a quart or so of berries a day, and wants them to continue until black- 

 berry time; but the market gardener does not want to be everla-stingly 

 travelling up and down the rows to pick the berries; he wants them to 

 ripen up when their time comes, so that he may pick them and be 

 done with it; he prefers to grow another variety that will come in with 

 a crop afterwards, to being continually gleaning over the same bushes. 

 To compensate in some measure for this, it promises to be a great 

 Ijearer. On one short cane, three feet hi^h, over six hundred berries 

 were counted, and on a single branch, eighty-eight. Yes, that is con- 

 siderable. But in growing fruit far market, it does not answer to 

 apply the rule of three to the problem, if one cane, three feet high, 

 will produce six hundred berries, how many will an acre of them pro- 

 duce. It is said "figures do not lie," but they do though ; if any one 

 does not believe it, let him try to grow an acre of raspberries by the 

 rule of three, and see how he will come out. However, this variety 

 proposes to do better in this respect than many others, by reason of 

 the great size of the berries ; several were picked last summer that 

 measured three inches in circumference. We all remember the amusing 

 equivoque of the man who had gooseberries so large that many of them 

 would weigh a pound ; how many it took to weigli th^ pound lie forgot 

 to mention. But this is no equivocation, each berry measured three 

 inches in circumference, not many it is true ; and some of the canes 

 yielded berries nearly every one of which would measure two and a 

 half inches. And then in flavor it is thought to resemble closely that 

 standard of raspberry excellence, Brinkle's Orange ; while the color is 

 that l)right-red so popular in the markets. 



The plant has the habit of dropping its leaves early, like the 

 Hudson Eiver Antwerp, those at the tips of the canes remaining green, 

 and continuing to grow until the advent of cold weather. It thrives 

 best in northern exposures, and in cool, moist rich soils. 



Chas. Downing, our greatest American authority on fruits, says of 

 this berry, " I regard it as the largest, finest, best flavored, and most 

 promising red raspberry that I have yet seen." AVilliam I'arry, the 

 great small fruit raiser of New Jersey, says, " I consider it superior to 

 any other raspberry that I have seen; jjlant a remarkably strong, 



