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GIGANTIC RASPBERRIES. 



of raw fowl (which he had torn asunder, 

 feathers and all,) with as much avidity as Sir 

 Robert Peel devours our incomes. 



Should Mr. Wighton read this paper, he 

 cannot fail to perceive that I have many serious 

 obstacles to overcome, before I can arrive at 

 the very important conclusion, that the family 

 of squirrel is carnivorous in its own native 

 haunts. 



GIGANTIC RASPBERRIES 



When I altered Walton Hall, I destroyed the 

 finest garden, for its size, in Yorkshire. But 

 there was no help for it. I was absolutely 

 forced to turn Vandal, and blot it out from the 

 face of the earth. The raspberries in it always 

 grew to the height of fourteen feet. Situation 

 caused this growth. I once, in my rambles in 

 Lancashire, fell in with a like situation, and 

 there I found wild raspberries growing fully as 

 high. To obtain this luxuriant growth, the 

 situation must be low and rich ; and the rasp- 



