IIASPBEREY 



HABDY FBUIT GARDEN loganberry 1087 



soil near the clumps is injurious to 

 them. Unless suckers are required for 

 increasing stock, they should always be 

 pulled up or cut off, as they absorb a good 

 deal of nourishment which can be better 

 employed by the canes that are required. 

 A heavy mulching of well-rotted manure 

 or the remains of old mushroom beds 

 around the stems is very beneficial to the 

 roots, and may be applied in early winter 

 or early spring. Weeds are also kept 

 down by the mulching, and any odd ones 

 that appear may be removed by hand or 

 the application of the Dutch hoe. As a 

 rule Baspberries grow for several years in 

 the same place and bear abundantly, but 

 it is essential that the ground should be 

 more or less heavily dressed with manure 

 every year, so that the soil shall not 

 become exhausted. 



Varieties of Summer-Fruiting 

 Easpberries 



Baumforth's Seedling. — This is an 

 improved form of Northumberland Fill- 

 basket, with large dark crimson fruits of 

 excellent flavour. The plant is a vigor- 

 ous grower, and the current year's canes 

 often produce a few fruits in autumn. 



Carter's Prolific. — This is a very heavy 

 cropper, and produces large, round, deep 

 red fruits, firm in flesh and excellent in 

 flavour. 



Fastolf. — An excellent Easpberry with 

 large roundish conical fruits of a bright 

 purple-red colour and good flavour. 



Northumberland Fillbasket. — A vigor- 

 ous variety with rather large, roundish, 

 conical fruits of a deep red colour and 

 fine flavour. 



Semper Fidelis. — An excellent Easp- 

 berry for preserving purposes. The fruit 

 has a rich bright red colour, with a slightly 

 acid flavour. The canes bear abundantly. 



Superlative. — This is a comparatively 

 new variety of great excellence and 

 quality. It bears large crops of rich red 

 fruits. 



Other good red varieties are Bed Ant- 

 werp and Hornet, but Superlabwe may 

 be regarded as at present the finest eating 

 Easpberry, and Semper Fidelis the best for 

 preserving. 



Among the white or yellow Easpberries 

 the best are Magnum Bonum and Yellotv 

 Antwerp. 



Autumnal Raspberries. — Besides the 

 ordinary summer - fruiting Easpberries, 

 there are a few varieties which bear their 



fruits in autumn. They are not exten- 

 sively cultivated, but they are worthy of a 

 place where space can be afforded them, 

 although the fruit does not equal in quality 

 or flavour that produced by the Summer 

 varieties. 



The Autumn Easpberries bear their 

 fruits on the canes of the current year, as 

 well as on those produced the year previous. 

 They require to be thinned out rather 

 more than the summer-fruiting varieties, 

 and may also receive heavier and more 

 frequent mulchings of manure to produce 

 good crops. After about six years the 

 plants show signs of exhaustion, or rather 

 the soil no longer contains sufficient food 

 for them. It is then necessary to make a 

 new plantation with young plants, and if 

 in a fresh part of the garden, so much the 

 better. The following are the best kinds of 

 Autmnn Raspberries ripe in October : — 



Belle de Fontenay, large, round, deep 

 red, good flavour. 



October Bed, large, bright red ; a heavy 

 cropper, the spikes of fruit often being 

 12-18 in. long. 



October Yellow. — A free-fruiting yel- 

 low variety with medium-sized fruits. 



Enemies of the Raspberry. — These may 

 be many, but with good cultivation and 

 proper thinning out of the canes to admit 

 light and air, very little damage seems to 

 be done. A small maggot {Tinea corti- 

 cella) sometimes attacks the flower-buds 

 and fruits. 



Its presence is detected by the wither- 

 ing of the flower-buds. These should be 

 squeezed between the finger and thumb, 

 and as they are rendered useless, may be 

 picked off and burned at once. A dust- 

 ing with lime and fsoot round the base 

 of the plants in winter is a preventive 

 against the attacks of the larvae of beetles 

 &c., which sometimes feed upon the roots. 



THE LOGANBERRY. — A fruit 

 under this name has attracted considerable 

 attention during the past year or two. 

 It is an American production, and re- 

 ceives its name from Judge Logan of 

 the American Bar, who had grown it for 

 some years in his garden. It is said to 

 be a true hybrid between the Eed Easp- 

 berry and the Blackberry, not at all an 

 unlikely proceeding, considering the close 

 relationship of the two. The ' berries ' are 

 like large Blackberries and of a deep red- 

 dish-maroon colour, ripe early in July in 

 the south, and in August in the midlands 



