THE RASPBERRY. 



When well-grown, and of the best varieties, this is 

 one of our most Avholesome and excellent fruits. It 

 deserves a far more general and better cultivation than 

 is usually given to it ; and its free use, succeeding the 

 strawberry, as it does, would doubtless conduce to the 

 general health as well as luxury of the oommunity. 



If grown without care, it is often small, hard, and 

 with little good flavor ; but when highly cultivated, it 

 is large, melting, and delicious. It will repay the best 

 care, and to very few fruits is this so indispensable as 

 to the raspberry. 



A rather moist, cool location, on the north slope of 

 a side-hill, or shade of a fence, is to be chosen ; and 

 the soil should be deep and rich. A deep loam is 

 preferable, but other soils by the addition of bog earth 

 or muck can be made to answer the purpose ; it should 

 be well broken up, trenched and pulverized to the depth 

 of two feet, then enriched with well-rotted manure, 

 vegetable, if convenient. 



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