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SMALL FRUIT CULTUEIST. 



SOIL AND LOCATIONS. 



For the purpose of giving a general rule (exceptions 

 included), I will divide the Raspberries into two classes, 

 without regard to species : 



Class 1. — The common Red and White kinds, taking 

 the Antwerps as the foreign branch, and the wild Red as 

 the native type. These require a deep rich moist soil, and 

 one that is rather compact, such as a heavy loam or clay. 

 These succeed very poorly in a sandy soil, unless it be in 

 the extreme North. 



Class 2. — The Black Raspberry (iJ. occideiitalis) and 

 its varieties succeed in both light and heavy soils (although 

 they prefer the former), and in the most Northern as well 

 as in the Southern States. 



To this peculiarity of the varieties of the two classes, 

 we owe, in a great measure, tlie diversity of opinion so 

 often expressed by fruit growers from the different sections 

 of the country. 



The Antwerp class, as a whole, do not succeed apon 

 light soils south of latitude forty-one, and they sometimes 

 fail even to the north of this. In the sandy soils of New 

 J ersey, and farther South, their leaves burn in summer, 

 which prevents the canes maturing; consequently they 

 die in winter whether covered or otherwise. 



This has been one of the great obstacles to Raspberry 

 culture, as this class has been the one chiefly recommended, 

 for the very good reason that the fruit was of superior 

 quality, although the plants were delicate. 



North of the latitude named, very few of the varieties 

 cultivated are hardy, and protection in winter is required. 

 A few of the native Red kinds will withstand the cold of 

 winter at the North, but for some cause they have not as 

 yet become very popular. These few kinds, which are 

 hardy at the North, often fail at the South from the cause 

 named, and the canes Avinter-kill even in a very mild 



