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must be returned by good manuring, without which we 

 shall never get fine fruit. The suckers produced do the 

 parent stock no harm only provided the loss to it be 

 compensated by plentiful manuring. Another thing 

 with regard to the raspbeny is, that it is a warmth-and- 

 sunshine-loving plant : do not, therefore, cut off the 

 canes straight at the top, as if one cHp of the shears 

 pruned the whole, but prune the canes to various 

 heights, as before recommended, and thus avoid a 

 crowded cluster of fruit and foliage, among which 

 neither sun nor air can have fair play. 



To stock the garden usefully w^ith raspberries we 

 may have kinds which come in before the beginning of 

 summer, and others (or the same) to produce again in 

 autumn. 



The Eed and Yellow Antwerp have always been 

 esteemed sorts ; the red are large and of fine flavour, 

 and the yellow also large, yellow, sweet, and very good 

 for dessert. The Sweet Yellow Antwerp has slender 

 shoots, and is (Mr. Elvers says) the sweetest of all. 



Elvers 's Black is a hybrid (I believe crossed with the 

 blackberry) very dai'k in colour, and with a certain 

 acidity of flavour, which gives piquancy when it is 

 mixed with the other kinds in jam. 



The Fastolf or Filby Easpberry is red, large, and 

 excellent; it has pretty well superseded the Antwerp, 

 being quite as good in flavour, much larger, and an 

 excellent bearer. It has, besides, the good quality of 

 sometimes pix)ducing a crop of fine autumnal rasp- 

 berries, superior to the fruit of the double-bearing 

 kinds. The double-bearing is, in fact an autumn 

 raspberry. 



Carter's Prolific is deep reel in colour, large and good 

 in flavom*. Vice-President French is a large, round, 

 deep red raspberry, which is veiy rich and good in 

 flavour. Cutbush's Prince of "Wales is fine in size, 

 red, firm, and very good. Fillbasket is a large, good 

 raspberry, and a most abundant bearer. 



As ofood autumn-bearino* kinds there are October Eed 

 and October Yellow, or Merveille des Quatre Saisons, 



