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GARDENING FOK THE SOUTH. 



two crops. Our gardens can be occupied with more produo 

 tive and desirable kinds of fruit. Hougliton's seedling is 

 the hardiest variety. 



Ruhus — Easpberry and Blackberry. 

 Ruhus Mens — Haspberry. 



The Easpberry plant has small shrubby stems of bien 

 nial duration, but perennial roots. The leaves are pinnate. 

 The flowers appear in panicles on the new growth upon 

 last year's canes — the fruit ripens in a few weeks after the 

 flowers appear. It is a native of both continents in low 

 moist situations. The fruit is highly grateful, being fra- 

 grant, cooling, allaying heat and thirst, of a pleasant sub- 

 acid flavor and is much esteemed either alone or in connec- 

 tion with the currant for preserves, tarts, sauces, jellies, 

 jams, and ices. Wine is made of the juice by the addition 

 of water and sugar. Easpberry shrub, a refreshing drink, 

 is made of the unfermented juice, by adding sugar and 

 water. Currant shrub prepared in the same way, is still 

 more cooling. Easpberry juice, like that of strawberries, 

 dissolves the tartar of the teeth, and the fruit never ferment- 

 ing in the stomach may be used by invalids. 



This plant flourishes on deep, rich, moist loam. A bot- 

 tom near a stream is the best location. If this is not to 

 be obtained, trench the ground deeply and mulch during 

 the summer. Permit no grass or weeds among the bushes. 

 Easpberries grow admirably where they can receive the- 

 drainage of buildings. Downing says a slight dressing of 

 salt is a valuable application. The raspberry is propaga- 

 ted from suckers or offsets from the main roots. It may also 

 be raised from seed by which new varieties are obtained. 

 Seedlings bear in two years. In planting offsets two or 

 three are planted together to form a stool in rows five feet 

 asunder and three feet in the row. The black Easpberry 



