66 RASPBERRIES 
to two and a half tons per acre. “Taking the average 
price obtained as £25 per ton, this gives a return of {£50 
to £62, 10s. per acre. The price per ton is seldom 
lower than this, though I have known it reach £20 ina 
full season, while it not infrequently rises to £30, and 
even {50 has been obtained. The picking of choice 
dessert fruits costs more than the figures given, but then 
the price obtained increases proportionately. 
Readers will, with these figures before them, be able 
to work out the profits to be made from raspberry 
culture, remembering that rent must be added to the 
cost of production; that during the first year the crop 
will be so small that even under favourable circum- 
stances it is not likely to defray the initial cost of plants 
and planting, and that even in the second year there will 
not be a full crop. Then, too, railway rates and sales- 
man’s commission must be deducted from the market 
price realised. Raspberry culture is, however, not 
simply a matter of arithmetic; it is something more— 
a matter of brains, as is all profitable fruit culture. 
SELECTION OF VARIETIES 
It is not at all a difficult matter to reduce the varieties 
of raspberries when a selection is necessary. No one 
will, I think, quarrel with the assertion that if but one 
variety can be grown that one should be Superlative. 
This is by far the best raspberry for general cultivation, 
as it grows as well in Scotland as in the south of 
England, crops abundantly over a long period, and pro- 
duces large fruits that are by no means to be despised 
for dessert, while they are excellent for tarts, for pre- 
serving, and for the manufacture of raspberry vinegar. 
Market-growers and others who do not wish to have 
the trouble of training the canes to stakes or trellises 
