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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Popular Raspberries. — Conversing the other day with Mr. Jonathan R. 

 Pettit, one of our Grimsby fruit growers, we were comparing the productiveness 

 of the Marlboro and the Highland Hardy raspberries. In Mr. Pettit's opinion, 

 the latter yields almost double the quantity of fruit to the row, and is fully 

 eight days earlier in ripening. Indeed, with Mr. Pettit, the Marlboro is very 

 little in advance of the Cuthbert. We mention this, because we are aware that 

 some growers will scarcely agree with Mr. Pettit in saying that Highland 

 Hardy is as productive as the Marlboro. Certainly the latter is not quite as 

 early, but the fruit is much larger, and its color is another point in its favor. 



The Cuthbert is, in our opinion, the most satisfactory of all raspberries, if 

 grown upon suitable soil. Where the ground is too hard and too dry, or inclined 

 to bake in summer, raspberries will be unprofitable, but on rich sandy loam, 

 moist, but well drained, the Cuthbert yields enormous crops. This year it has 

 surpassed its record for productiveness at Maplehurst, when compared with any 

 former year, and, on the whole, we are inclined to place it first among our rasp- 

 berries for profit. That other growers agree with us in this, is proved by the 

 large plantations of this variety which are being .set out, some even cutting down 

 apple orchards, intending to devote the land to this berry. 



Shaffer's Colossal raspberry is, in our opinion, not likely to be popular. It 

 is a grand berry, so productive and so healthy a grower, and the quality so excel- 

 lent, when used fresh for the table, or for canning purposes. It ought to com- 

 mand a higher price in the market than the Cuthbert, but unfortunately its ctilor 

 is against it, and from consignees in every market, the same word is returned, 

 "Cannot sell those dark berries," and the returns are a j)roof of what they say, 

 being usually little more than half the price returned for the Cuthbert. 



