52 RASPBERRIES 
spirits, the raspberry is available. Consequently, it 
seems only reasonable that good plantations should be 
made in every garden. But it will probably be urged 
that almost every garden, including the cottage garden 
and the allotment, has its row of raspberries. That 
this is so, is readily granted; but how often are the 
raspberries thoroughly well grown? Soils and situa- 
tions affect raspberries, as other crops; but, even when 
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allowances are made for these, it is by no means often 
that raspberries are grown to perfection—that is, they 
are all too seldom accorded the position or the feeding 
they deserve, and, as a result, the berries are fewer and 
smaller than they ought to be, their flavour is not of 
the finest, and the crop is soon over. Allow me to 
enter a plea for more generous treatment of the rasp- 
berry, for I am confident, if such be given for a couple of 
seasons, there will be no going back to the old methods 
afterwards. 
