242 THE KITCHEN-GARDEN. [chap. vii. 
plants; that is to say, if left to themselves, 
they would, by the old plants dying off, and 
being succeeded by suckers every year, soon 
travel over a considerable extent of ground. 
The raspberry thrives best in a light, free 
loam, moderately rich; and in an open situ¬ 
ation. It always bears on the young shoots, 
so that the principal art required in pruning 
it consists in cutting out the old wood, and 
shortening the young. The height at which 
the bearing shoots should be left is three 
feet, or four feet. The best raspberries are 
the red and yellow Antwerp. Raspberries 
are propagated by Suckers, which are pro¬ 
duced in great abundance every year. The 
raspberry belongs to the same genus as the 
bramble, or blackberry. 
Barberries , — No fruit-tree or shrub re¬ 
quires less care in its culture than the bar¬ 
berry, or, as it is more properly called, the 
berberry. The sorts usually grown for their 
fruit are all varieties of the common sort: 
they are the common red, the stoneless, and 
the sweet. Several varieties of the Mahonia 
or Ash berberry bear excellent fruit, but the 
trees are at present too rare, and of too 
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