shaded, the plant succeeds. In an enclosed, and well sheltered quarter, with rather a damp soil, containing 
a proportion of peat moss, we have seen very great crops of large and well flavoured berries produced ; for 
example at Melville house, the seat of the Earl of Leven, in Fifeshire.” Haynes also recommends well 
manured bog earth, and a situation naturally or artificially shaded. 
Raspberry bushes are in their prime about the third or fourth year, and if well managed, continue in 
perfection 5 or 6 years ; after which they are apt to decline in growth and the fruit to become small, so 
that a successive plantation should be provided in time. Select new plants from vigorous shoots, in full 
perfection as to bearing. 
Keep them free from weeds during the summer by hoeing between the rows, at the same time loosen 
the earth about the plants : the plants if tolerably strong, will both yield a moderate crop the first season, 
and supply young stems for bearing in greater plenty and perfection the following season, and so from year 
to year this should be repeated. As the plant gets established, let all the straggling suckers between the 
rows, or from the extreme roots of single shoots, be cleared out by hoeing, or twisted off to admit the air 
and sun freely to the fruit. The fruit of the raspberry may be obtained of a very large size, other circum- 
stances being favourable, by destroying the suckers ; but in this way the plant being destroyed, a double 
plantation is wanted, the one to give only suckers, the other fruit. 
“ The fruit of the different varieties comes in from the end of June or July till October or later. As it 
ripens it should be timely gathered for immediate use, because when fully ripe it will not keep above two or 
three days before it moulds or becomes maggoty, and unfit to be used.” — Abercrombie. 
Raspberries are dried in ovens for winter use. Raspberry vinegar is well known both in France and 
England, and independently of its agreeableness when mixed with water, as a summer drink, it is ex- 
cellent as a febrifuge. In England, raspberries are principally used for making raspberry jam and rasp- 
berry vinegar; and for pies and puddings, in ‘‘combination with currants and cherries. They are excellent 
eaten with milk or cream, with the addition of sugar, when fresh ; and are easily preserved in jars or bottles, 
entire, with or without sugar, for winter use. They are reckoned very wholesome, and children are seldom, 
if ever, injured by eating them. 
To make Raspberry wine, slays John Farley, “ You must with the back of a spoon, bruise the finest 
raspberries you can get, and strain them through a flannel bag into a stone jar. To each quart of juice put 
a pound of double refined sugar, then stir it well together, and cover it close. Let it stand three days, and 
then pour it off clear. To a quart of juice put two quarts of white wine, and then bottle it off. It will be 
fit for drinking in a week. 
If an attempt be made to form wine from raspberries and sugar, a liquor will be produced with but 
little, if any, of the flavour of the fruit ; but a small quantity of juice of raspberries added at the decline of 
the fermentation, or a little fresh fruit suspended in the cask at the same period, will be sufficient to com- 
municate an excellent raspberry flavour. 
“ The roots of the raspberry plant are in demand by some French cooks ; but we are uncertain to what 
use they are applied, probably in the dressing of game.” 
“The seeds of the raspberry are said to retain the vital principle for a very long period ; and a plant in 
1836, in the Horticultural Society’s garden, was raised from seeds found in a barrow, or tumulus, in Wilt- 
shire, opened in 1835 ; which, unless we can suppose the seeds to have been conveyed into the interior of 
the tumulus by insects or vermin, must have lain there many centuries.” — Loudon' s Arboretum Britannicum. 
— Almighty Being, 
Cause and support of all things! 
Can I view 
These objects of my wonder — can I feel 
These fine sensations — and not think of thee ! 
In the language of flowers, we perceive the Raspberry denotes remorse. 
