Eicut] STRAWBERRIES AND THEIR KIN 
late variety is the Nemaha. This is a favorite 
berry for market, because the fruit is of the highest 
quality, and carries well. The bushes are very 
strong growers, very healthy, and quite hardy. A 
new variety called the Cumberland is said to be the 
largest of all blackcaps. It is probably a seedling 
of the Gregg, and very much like that variety. The 
canes are stout and stocky, producing immense 
crops. ‘The probabilities are that we shall have 
new seedlings in this family of blacks — that is, the 
Gregg family — covering the whole season, and 
even preferable to those I have named. A very 
common and very excellent sort is the Palmer —a 
berry that ripens among the very earliest. 
It is impossible for those who have small gar- 
dens, and pay little attention to them, to grow 
black raspberries with any such freedom as they 
grow red. The red reproduces itself by suckers, 
and in that way the old rows can be sustained for 
years by simply cutting out annually the dead 
canes. The black raspberry, on the contrary, 
propagates only by rooting at the tips of the canes. 
If you desire to multiply them, you must see that 
the tips touch the ground and are not disturbed 
while rooting. An old stool of black raspberries 
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