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great expenditure of the energies of the plant, 

 as well as robbing the soil, to allow the bearing- 

 wood to remain one day after the fruit has been 

 gathered. 



Forcing the raspberry. — This is done pretty- 

 extensively on the Continent, where they are 

 planted in the front of pits {vide figs. 405, 407, 

 vol. i.), the fruit-bearing wood introduced in 

 December, under the glass roof, the young 

 wood allowed to rise and ripen trained to a 

 trellis outside, to be in turn introduced the 

 succeeding season, when the old wood is cut 

 away altogether. The same end could be better 

 effected by growing the plants in large pots 

 plunged in the open garden, and the plants 

 shaken out carefully, and planted in front of the 

 pits or houses annually. When the day arrives 

 when we shall have properly constructed hot- 

 houses of sufficient capacity, instead of the 

 mouse- trap lean-to things at present dignified 

 with the name, rarely exceeding 30 feet in 

 length and 12 feet in breadth, we may then 

 calculate upon having the raspberry and its 

 compeers growing in pots or tubs in all the 

 luxuriance they at present assume in the open air. 



SELECT LIST. 



Barnet. — Fruit very large, conical, bright 

 purplish red ; ripens early, and is very produc- 

 tive. Canes long, yellowish green, branching 

 much more than the Red Antwerp, particularly 

 near the ground. Bearing-shoots almost smooth. 

 Inferior, however, to the Red Antwerp, in respect 

 of its not bearing carriage so well. Synonyms 

 — Large red, Lord Exmouth's, Cornwall's prolific, 

 Cornwall's red, Cornwall's seedling. 



Belle de Fontenay. — A new variety of French 

 origin, described by Messrs Henderson of the 

 Wellington nursery, St John's Wood, as being 

 " a great improvement over other varieties in 

 cultivation, producing racemes of fruit at every 

 leaf ; it is also a remarkably prolific bearer from 

 the spring to the autumn, being a perpetual 

 fruiting variety of large size, good colour, and 

 fine flavour ; very dwarf, not more than from 3 

 to 4 feet in height, and branching off so as to 

 form quite a bush." We have introduced this 

 and the White globe on account of their dwarf 

 habit ; the descriptions are quoted from the 

 catalogues of the respective firms. Not having 

 seen them in cultivation ourselves, we cannot 

 speak from personal knowledge of them ; the 

 respectability of the parties, however, is a suf- 

 ficient guarantee for the correctness of the 

 descriptions. 



Cox's honey. — We notice this variety, being a 

 yellow or whitish fruiter, as there is such a 

 paucity of that colour, the Yellow or White 

 Antwerp, White monarch, White globe, and Old 

 white, a worthless variety, being the only others 

 not of a red colour. Cox's honey has the pecu- 

 liarity of bearing its fruit in clusters along the 

 stems, and is otherwise of good quality, but by 

 no means in general cultivation. 



Double-bearing. — The fruit is small though 

 abundant ; its merit consists in its bearing late 

 in the season, often till destroyed by the frost ; 

 and to encourage this habit, the shoots are cut 

 down in spring to within a few inches of the 



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ground. Since the appearance, however, of 

 Rivers' large-fruiting monthly, this variety is now 

 nearly neglected, the other being superior in 

 every respect. Synonyms — Late cane, Siberian, 

 Red double-bearing, Perpetual bearing. 



Falstoff. — Colour red ; size very large ; quality 

 excellent, and an abundant bearer. The origi- 

 nal plant was found growing naturally from 

 seed under a Portugal laurel in the grounds of 



the Rev. Lucas of Filby, in Norfolk, and by 



him made known under the name of the Filby 

 raspberry, and to him we are indebted for the 

 first of our stock. The name of Falstoff was 

 given it by a nurseryman in the same neigh- 

 bourhood, and by him it was brought to the 

 general knowledge of the trade. Not only is 

 the fruit of large size and rich flavour, but it 

 has the property of continuing to bear succes- 

 sional crops for a greater length of time than 

 any other of its class. Canes strong, branching, 

 light yellowish brown, with pretty long bristles. 

 Being a large grower, it should be allowed plenty 

 of room— certainly not nearer than 6 feet plant 

 from plant. 



Franconia. — Fruit very large, obtusely coni- 

 cal, dark red, flavour more acid and tart than 

 that of most others. Canes strong, branching ; 

 leaves rather narrow and long, and of a very deep 

 green colour. This is reputed the hardiest of 

 raspberries, notwithstanding its Parisian origin. 

 Downing says, " It flourishes admirably in Now 

 England, and north of us (New York), where 

 the climate is too cold for the Antwerp, and is 

 by far the finest variety for a northern latitude." 

 It bears carriage well, and ripens a week or ten 

 days later than the Antwerp. 



Red Antwerp. — Fruit large, conical ; flavour 

 rich and sweet. Canes of moderate growth, 

 becoming pale brown early in autumn, their 

 lower parts covered with strongish dark-brown 

 bristles, the upper parts nearly smooth. Leaves 

 large and plaited. There are, unfortunately, 

 some inferior varieties of this excellent sort in 

 the nurseries ; these, when detected in fruit, 

 should be grubbed up. It is the most general 

 in cultivation, being of good size, shape, and 

 flavour, and withal most productive. It is of 

 Dutch origin, and was introduced to Britain 

 many years ago from Antwerp. Synonyms — 

 Knevett's Antwerp, Howland's red Antwerp, Bur- 

 ley, New red Antwerp, True red Antwerp. Of 

 this sort Mr Thompson remarks in Supplement 

 to " Hort. Soc. Cat. : " — " Amongst all the culti- 

 vated sorts of raspberries, none are known to 

 possess the rich aroma of the Red Antwerp ; 

 but it has been so long grown in this country 

 that the stock appears to want renewing. The 

 three reputed best sorts of Antwerp raspberries 

 have accordingly been recently introduced for 

 trial." 



Rivers' large-fruited monthly. — "A free grower, 

 abundant bearer, and valuable for producing 

 late crops ; very different, however, from the 

 weak-growing old double-bearing." — 'Thompson. 



Rogers' Victoria. — Size of fruit medium ; form 

 conical ; colour bright red ; canes smooth, brown- 

 ish red, growing erect. This is a long-bearing 

 sort, and continues to produce fruit in pretty 

 good succession till November. 



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