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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1875. 
RASPBERRIES. 
К bonos, is one great difference between the 
points of interest presented by the Black- 
berry and Raspberry respectively, in that while 
the former has, as we have seen, a great deal of 
olklore connected with it, th 
gen 
rally recognised * needs no demonstration," as 
Euclid observes, although our earlier writers do 
not seem to have шом them as important as 
are now usually considered. Turner, 
indeed, says that “the raspis is found in many 
gardines of England ;" and Tusser, among his 
horticultural ствы has the lines— 
“ The Barberry, Respis, and Gooseberry too, | 
Look now to be Кы аз ойе things do ; 
t Gerarde says its taste is “not very plea- 
| w^ ” although he also Sates to its being planted 
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in gardens. At the pres ay, however, few 
Its are more popular ог he le generally culti- 
vated ; an es” are extensively em- 
ployed, not only as a dessert fruit for making 
r puddings, but for jam and for 
being frequently prescribed in cases of sore 
throat and the like. Langham, in his Garden 
of Health, says “it were good to keepe some of 
the juyce of raspis berries in some wooden 
vessell, and to make it, as it Wis "m. ue 
which is good for many purpose 
which was rich, though not eee po vk was 
formerly made from Raspberries, and employe 
in scorbutic disorders : this was especially used 
in Poland, where the Raspberries abound in the 
woods. In Russia the fruit is dried in large 
quantities for winter use: and a hydromel is 
made from it, the Raspberries being dried and 
mixed with honey and then fermented. Accord- 
ing to Langham, from whom we have already 
quoted, “the flower stampt with hony 
applyed is good for the inflammation of the 
eyes,” while “the leaves and tender springs” 
were also used in domestic medicine. Even at 
the present day a tea is occasionally made 
from the leaves, as, indeed, has been the case 
with almost all ts except such as are a 
lutely poisonous. Threlkeld, speaking of the 
fruits, says, * They are dear in Dublin for 
tincturing brandy." 
It would be foreign to our purpose to enter 
upon a description or even an enumeration of 
ees different varieties of Raspberry which are 
n cultivation ; but they are both numerous and 
тошо Although most of them have г 
ruit, pere are not wanting others in which the 
rries” are yellow or white ; and a rather 
curious form, known as the “ black Raspberry," 
produces a dark purple fruit, and is said to 
have been obtained by crossing the Raspberry 
with the common hedge ble. 
= a wild state, the Raspberry is common 
ugh, and in some localities is so abundant 
dit it is collected by the villagers for domestic 
purposes. Gerarde's account of it embodies 
one of those casual references to his early life, 
which are but “few and f. etween," and 
which are the more ышыне дй on account of 
Шен infrequency. “І found it,” he says, 
* among the bushes of a causey, neere unto a 
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village called Wisterson, where I wen 
choole, 2 milesfrom the Nantwich in Cheshire.” 
This reference seems to have escaped the notice 
ofthe writer of the very interesting sketch of 
the life of Gerarde, which lately appeared in a 
he Engle names of i dni are 
somewhat иш That by which it is gener- 
ally known means simply the berry produced 
by the rasp, or resp (plural raspis or respis, 
or even, as in Lyte, d eua being the older 
name ofthe plant, which i in use in many 
counties. Whether this Sri to the roughness 
of the stem, as some have supposed, or, as is 
more probable, to the use of the wood in hog 
eastern counties, where it signifies 5 
Sucker, a young stem, and is applied ат. 
to the fruit-bearing stem of the Raspberry, is 
somewhat uncertain, 
thinks it may have om its 
growth in woods, which would be frequented 
by stags and hinds; a supposition which is 
* gathered by poor people, and of course by 
hinds among the rest," they etes take their 
or thinks 
sition is strengthened by the fact that Turner, 
who ие. : beeg called Hindberry in the 
north, says it ed “in Duche Hyndberen.” 
The French hes Framboise, appears in our 
older writers (as Lyte and Gerarde) as an 
t one time in use 
The specific title, Idzeus, appears t 
have originated, as in other cases, from the rell 
or supposed growth of the Raspberry upon 
Moun 
In the United States several allied species of 
Rubus are known by the name Ad Rasp ^ 
although the European Ri 
there. Of 
ur Raspberry is furnished by R. strigosus ; 
both may possibly be forms of one species. It 
is probably to this plant that the variety known 
as the Catawissa should be referred ; this form 
that Mrs. Moody refers when she speaks of the 
* berrying parties" which take place in Canada 
during the summer. She tells us of one locality 
in which several hundred acres were covered 
with wild frees the ground having been 
cleared some years previously. - R. occidentalis, 
the Bine. or ble- Бедь, і 
sembles l 
ing, but ee 
or ЖОКЕЙ white fruit. It is occasionally em- 
ployed in ауы, and is tois d Хоа 
upon ground that has been i 
other Rubi, which are rather of the Blackberry 
than the Raspberry type, are used in medicine 
in America, and have even мүн some im- 
portance. Such, for instance, is the American 
Dewberry (К. trivialis), which is certainly 
possessed of astringent qualities, and is em- 
ployed by the Oneida Indians, a decoction of the 
root being esteemed a rapid and certain cure for 
dysentery. A wine made from the fruit of this 
