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LIST OF FRUITS. 



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in the King's gardens are as follows : Red Bonmn Magnum^ White 

 Bonum Magnum, Catherine^ Coes Golden Drop, Damascene, 

 Drap d'or, F other ingliam, Blue Gage, Green Gage, German 

 Prune, Imperatrice, Mirahelle, Morocco, Early Orleans, Late 

 Orleans, Blue Perdrigon, White Perdrigon, Precoce de Tours, 

 Queen Mother Plum, Royale de Tours, Simiennes, Wine-sour, or 

 Windsor Goliah. The Gi^een-gage and the Orleans are the most 

 fashionable plums ; though the Blue Gage, which comes late in the 

 fall, is, in my opinion, one of the finest of plums ; and it is a very 

 great bearer. All plums may be preserved w ith sugar : the green- 

 gage or the blue-gage would be the best ; but damsons and hul- 

 laces are generally used, because they come more abundantly, and, 

 of course, are not so difficult to obtain. The Magnum Bonums 

 are fit for nothing but tarts and sweet-meats. Magnum is right 

 enough ; but, as to honum, the word has seldom been so com- 

 pletely misapplied. 



282. QUINCE. — There is an apple-shaped and a pear-shaped. 

 It is not a fruit to be eaten raw ; but to be put into apple-pies 

 and some other things. They are to be preserved like apples ; 

 and the trees are raised from cuttings or layers. 



283 . RASPBERRY.— There are two sorts, distinguished bytheir 

 colours of red and white. There are some of each that bear a 

 second crop in the autumn. The largest of raspberries is called 

 the Antwerp, and a very fine fruit it is. Raspberries are propa- 

 gated from offsets taken from the old stool : these are taken off in 

 the fall and they bear the next year. The stools ought to stand 

 in rows at six feet apart, and at three feet apart in the row. It is 

 very curious that in the northern countries of America, Nova 

 Scotia and New Brunswick for instance, the raspberry p^ant dies 

 completely down in the fall of the year, and new shoots come up 

 again out of the ground in the spring much about after the manner 

 of fern. These shoots bear the first year, though they do not 

 make their appearance above ground until June ; and where the 

 land is clear of high trees, and here the August sun has shrivelled 

 up the leaves of the raspberries, these shrubs form a sheet of red 

 for scores of miles at a stretch. They are the summer fruit of the 

 wild pigeon and a great variety of other birds. I once thought 

 that raspberries would never bear upon the shoot of the year in 

 England ; but I have frequently, of late years, seen them bear 

 upon such shoots. The stems of raspberries should be prevented 



