GIGANTIC RASPBERRIES. 



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berry plants must be shielded from the noonday 

 sun by trees, or a high wall. Trees, I should 

 say, would be better. We had always wooden 

 steps on purpose to reach the fruit. My father 

 sent plants of these raspberries to his friends in 

 Yorkshire, and in the county of Nottingham, 

 but they answered not the expectations which 

 had been formed of them. When I destroyed 

 the garden, I saved a sufficient quantity of 

 plants to be cultivated elsewhere. They are 

 still in existence, and their puny growth in- 

 forms me that I must never more expect to see 

 them in their former luxuriance. When I re- 

 moved the soil on which they had flourished so 

 suprisingly, I found stony fragments at the 

 bottom, through which there ran a stream of 

 water which got vent from the mouth of a drain 

 at the opposite side of the garden. 



