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and north. They are said to be ' rich in 

 flavour — a mingling of the Blackberry and 

 Easpberry, mellowed and refined,' but the 

 few I tasted certainly did not give me this 

 impression. The description, however, 

 may have reference to berries grown in 

 America, where the climate is more favour- 

 able to them than ours. Or, the fruits 

 may have been produced by one of the 

 plants referred to by Judge Logan writ- 

 ing in an American Agricultural Bulletin 

 as follows : — ' As I have before stated, 

 the Loganberry is reproduced from seed, 

 and while such seedlings are essentially 

 Loganberries, not one in a thousand is 

 equal to the origina,l. Such seedlings are 

 i-ank frauds when sent out as the Logan- 

 berry, and unprincipled nurserymen have 

 been flooding the East with such seed- 

 lings, and wherever sent the result has 

 been condemnation of the Loganberry. 

 The bulk of the fruiting of this plant 

 is in May, June, and July in America. 

 However, the autumn crop is often of 

 considerable importance.' For jams and 

 jeUies they are considered to be un- 

 equalled. 



Culture and Propagation. — The plant 

 has a trailing wiry habit, with dark green 

 leathery foUage, and may be grown in 

 waste places like Blackberries if desired. 



The following particulars, for which I 

 am indebted to Mr. Lewis Castle, Manager 

 of the Duke of Bedford's Fruit Farna, at 

 Woburn, will give the reader a good idea 

 as to the treatment required to bring this 

 plant to perfection in our cHmate. He 

 says : ' My first experiences with this Eubus 

 were rather disappointing, and I began to 

 think that the prejudice formed against it 

 was well founded. The fruits were sparsely 

 produced and were little better than 

 those of an ordinary Dewberry either in 

 size or flavour, the only marked character 

 being the great vigour of the plant. For 

 two years it was grown with the long stems 

 tied to upright stakes, but as the growth 

 was so rampant I decided to try another 

 method. Six stout stakes, each about 5 ft. 

 high, were placed around the plants at 3 ft. 

 from the centre, and the stems were then 

 taken round these in succession in a spiral 

 but near together so that they were nearly 

 in a horizontal position. The result of 

 this plan was most satisfactory : at every 

 node short flowering laterals were pro- 

 duced which developed large handsome 

 and distinctly flavoured fruits. A similar 

 result has followed in each season since, 



and the Loganberry is now considered well 

 worth the space it occupies, indeed the 

 plantation has been extended. The fruiting 

 , stems, which frequently attain the length 

 of 12-16 ft., are cut away at the end of the 

 season and the current year's growths are 

 trained in their places, much the same as 

 with Raspberries, a liberal dressing of old 

 manure is applied over the roots at the 

 same time, and with a little thirming out 

 where the growths are too thick, or 

 shortening if the wood is immature and 

 not likely to bear fniit, little attention is 

 required. The plant is readily increased 

 by division of the roots, or if the stems lie 

 on the ground they root at the tips and 

 produce strong young plants the same 

 season.' 



THE STRAWBERRY-RASP- 

 BERRY. — This pecuUarity comes from 

 Japan, and is reputed to be a hybrid 

 between the Strawberry and Raspberry. 

 Most people are sceptical on this point, 

 as there seems to be little likeness to 

 either of the reputed parents. The plant 

 is quite hardy, with pale green leaves, 

 snow-white and delicately fragrant flowers, 

 which give place to large roundish berries, 

 bigger than large Blackberries. 



THE BLACK RASPBERRY.— This 



is a kind of large Blackberry of American 

 origin, with large Blackberry-Kke fruits 

 which ripen about the middle of July. 

 The variety known as the ' Cumberland 

 Black Cap ' is said to be very hardy m 

 our climate and produces large crops of 

 excellent fruit suitable either for dessert 

 or cooking. The flavour is exactly like 

 our ordinary Blackberry. 



THE STRAWBERRY (Fragaria). 

 This is the last of the Rosaceous fruits 

 described in this work, and differs from 

 the others in being a herb and not a tree 

 or shrub. Although the edible portion of 

 a Strawberry is usually regarded as its 

 fruit, it is in reality but the enlarged 

 receptacle which has been rendered 

 particularly succulent and deliciously 

 flavoured by cultivation. The real fruits 

 of the Strawberry are the small seed-hke 

 bodies called achenes, dotted spirally all 

 over the surface of the fleshy receptacle. 

 When Strawberries are raised from seeds, 

 it is these ' achenes,' which contain the 

 true seeds, that must be sown. It may 

 also be pointed out that the Strawberry 

 is not a true berry — the real berry being 



