RAS 
HAS 
may be trusted in the open ground, and 
the third crop got in about the last 
. week of February or the first of the fol¬ 
lowing month; the ground intended to 
receive them should have been pre¬ 
viously well manured and dug, and 
ought to be in a warm position, where 
the young plants may be protected from 
cutting winds, and receive the full be¬ 
nefit ot the sun. The seed being sown, 
and carefully rolled and raked in, the 
ground should be covered with fully six 
inches of straw; and when the plants 
make their appearance, this will require 
to be raked off every fine day, and 
thrown back again at night, to protect 
them from the frosts common to that 
part of the year. The successional 
sowings should now be made at regular 
intervals, according to the demand, em¬ 
ploying the long-rooted kinds through 
March, and afterwards, for summer use, 
the round ones; and as the season ad¬ 
vances it will be necessary to select the 
more shaded spots for their reception, 
and to sow rather oftener in smaller 
quantities, as the heat of summer is 
prejudicial to their keeping, and in all 
probability one or two of the Midsummer 
sowings may fail altogether, therefore it 
is advisable to have several small crops 
in rapid succession. In September and 
October provision must be made for the 
autumn and winter by sowing rather 
largely on a warm spot, and a few sown 
in November will often prove of much 
assistance; those which remain for win¬ 
ter use must be carefully covered with 
straw to protect them from frost; and 
as they keep well at this season, one 
good sowing is usually sufficient. 
RASPBERRY. Itubus Idaus (Will- 
dexow.) Nat. Ord. Rosacea. This 
favorite and very wholesome fruit 
should be grown on light rich soil, 
and unless a considerable number are 
placed together, the situation should 
be partially shaded, as they do not 
attain their full size or richness when 
exposed to the direct influence of the 
mid-day sun. The fruit is borne on short 
lateral branches produced near the top 
of the preceding year’s shoots, which an¬ 
nually proceed afresh from the roots, and 
after bearing fruit in the second year, of 
then existence, die; this circumstance 
should regulate the pruning, the most 
proper course being to reduce the number 
of suckers, or canes as they are called, 
proportionately with the strength of the 
stool,- as they rise in the spring; and 
afterwards, in autumn, those which have 
borne fruit should be cut completely out, 
shortening the remaining new canes, 
according to their strength, from one to 
two feet of then immature extremities; 
these are to be bound to stakes, and are 
the fruitful plants of the next year. To 
save stakes, the perfected new canes are 
sometimes bent into arches and tied 
together, which is perhaps the best me¬ 
thod of training; and when intended to 
be so treated, the stools should be 
planted about three feet, one from 
another; and in the autumn, when the 
old canes are cut out, the half of the 
new ones rising from each stool should 
be inclined on either hand to meet those 
of the next stool, and by fastening their 
extremities together they are kept 
very securely in their places, have an 
ornamental appearance, and the young 
shoots have abundance of room allowed 
them to grow strongly in an erect posi¬ 
tion till the end of the season, when 
they again take the place of the bearing 
canes. 
There are many so-called varieties of 
this fruit, though but little difference 
is observable among them when closely 
compared; white kinds are scarce, which 
is the more remarkable from the great 
ease with which seminal varieties may 
be obtained, it being no unfrequent oc¬ 
currence for self-sown seedlings to make 
their appearance by hundreds when the 
ground is favorable to their growth. 
The best of those in cultivation are the 
following: , 
Antwerp, Red. An old but justly- 
esteemed variety, unsurpassed in co¬ 
lour or flavour, and a good bearer; 
the canes are usually smaller than 
most other sorts. Syn. Burley, 
Codrington’s Free Bearing, Knevett’s 
Late Bearing Antwerp. 
Antwerp, Yellow. Equal to the last, 
