THE RASPBERRY. 



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Winter management. — The strawberry requires 

 to be slightly covered, during the winter, to protect 

 it from the winter's severity. 



The following paragraph is from the Cultivator, 

 and the best article I have seen on the manuring the 

 strawberry. " With regard to the manures for straw- 

 berry beds," says the Editor, " such are to be pre- 

 ferred as are cool, and from the seed of weeds. Cow 

 manure is preferable to that of horses. Bone dust 

 and horn shavings are excellent, if not applied in 

 too large large quantities. -A bushel and a half of 

 either should go as far as a load of long dung. For 

 top-dressing the beds in autumn there is nothing 

 better than tan, that from the morocco leather being 

 preferable. The tan smothers weeds, keeps the 

 soil moist, the berries clean, and seems withal to 

 afford the specific food of the] plant. It is re- 

 commended to cover strawberry beds lightly with 

 straw, in the spring, and burn it off, which destroys 

 the seed of weeds, &c. We have been cruelly 

 censured for this recommendation, by one who un- 

 wittingly burnt piles of straw upon his beds, and 

 consequently destroyed his plants." 



Art. 3. — On the Culture of the Raspberry. 



Origin of its name and useful qualities. — The 

 raspberry derived its English name from the ap- 

 pearance of the fruit to a rasp or file — its botanical 

 name Rubus. 



The raspberry is eaten as a dessert when ripe, and 

 in cookery as tarts ; it is preserved in jams and jel- 



