The Raspberry and 

 Some Odd Crosses 



Much Betterment — and a Few Baffling Problems 



LET us take up the story of small fruit de- 

 velopment where the preceding chapter 

 left it. We are still concerned with the 

 blackberry, but we now have to do also with the 

 companion fruit, which is obviously a not very 

 distant relative, yet which has certain typical pe- 

 culiarities that mark it as belonging to an alto- 

 gether different branch of the race of brambles. 

 Most conspicuous of these is the fact that the ripe 

 raspberry separates from the receptacle when 

 picked, whereas the blackberry is permanently at- 

 tached to the receptacle. 



The raspberry, unlike the blackberry, has been 

 cultivated in Europe from an early period. The 

 red raspberry, in particular, grows wild all over 

 Europe, from Greece to Spain and northward to 

 Norway and Sweden. It was originally christ- 

 ened Rubus Idaeus, after Mount Ida in Greece. 



[Volume VI — Chapter II] 



