THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 135 



liASPBEPJlIES— MOST PROFITABLE SORTS. 



As many of our readers are already aware that Mr. A. M. Piirdy, 

 of Palmyra, N. Y., is extensively engaged in the jj^rowing of raspberries 

 for market and for drying — having put up a large evaporator for the 

 purpose of drying raspberries and other fruit — they will doubtless feel 

 an interest in knowing what has been his experience during the past 

 season. Wo therefore condense from the August number of the Fruit 

 Recorder the remarks which he there makes upon this subject. 



He states that many planters make the mistake of planting too 

 many of one sort, thereby having a larger quantity of berries to handle 

 at once, instead of planting several sorts having different periods of 

 ripening, and so keeping up a steady business continuously during the 

 season. For this reason he plants Davidson's Thornless, Tyler, Doo- 

 little, Seneca, Mammoth Cluster and Gregg. In a plantation of thirty 

 acres he would set ten acres with the Davidson's Thornless, Tyler and 

 Doolittle, and the remaining twenty acres with Seneca, Mammoth 

 Cluster and Gregg. He finds the Tyler about as early as Davidson's 

 Thornless and larger and more productive. These tw are the earliest 

 black raspberries, and are all gone by the time the Mammoth Clusters 

 ripen, which in turn are nearly finished by the time the Gregg berries 

 come in. 



Wlien black raspberries sell readily at seven to eight cents per 

 quart he prefers to sell them, but when they fall below six to seven 

 he prefers to dry them. During the present season we learn that 

 some of the improved evaporators for drying fruit have been erected 

 in the Niagara District, and that growers of fniit in that part of the 

 Province may now be able to count upon a certain market for their 

 fruit. Heretofore when the market for fresh berries was glutted there 

 was no sale for the surplus, and the experiment of shipping to distant 

 markets usually resulted, after paying express charges and commissions, 

 in nothing for the grower. 



Of the red raspberries, Mr. I*urdy gives the preference for an early 

 ^urt to the Highland Hardy, which ripens up promptly and sells 

 readily at good prices. The Thwack and Brandy wine he finds to be 

 . oellent for shipping, the fruit of good size, and the plants prolific, 

 giving the preference to the Thwack as the best red raspberry for 

 market, on account of the bright color of the fruit and the firmness of 



