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and the best white variety yet known 
in British gardens. Syn. Double 
Bearing Yellow, White Antwerp, 
White Queen. 
Barnet. A very large and fine-flavoured 
red variety, bears well on strong - 
growing canes; the fruit, from its 
very tender nature, does not bear 
carriage well. Syn. Cornwall’s Pro¬ 
lific, Cornwall’s Bed, Cornwall’s Seed, 
ling Large Bed, Lord Exmouth’s. 
Cornish. Large, red, well-flavoured, 
rather late, and an excellent bearer. 
Cox’s Honey. A fine yellowish-white 
variety, with large berries, produced 
in clusters along the stems. 
Double Bearing. A red variety, with 
berries of medium size and quality, 
which, however, are produced in suc¬ 
cession on the autumnal shoots, and, 
therefore, desirable as a late sort. Syn. 
Late Cane, Perpetual Bearing, Bed 
Double Bearing, Siberian. 
Fastolf. A large fine-flavoured red va¬ 
riety, of the double-bearing class, the 
fruit being produced in clusters on 
short lateral branches in succession, 
up till the middle of October. Syn. 
Eilby. 
Monthly Bearing. Large red berries of 
medium quality, belonging to the con¬ 
tinuous bearers; the late fruit of this 
is often the finest. 
Old White. This variety is occasionally 
grown because of the scarcity of better 
kinds of the same colour; it is, how¬ 
ever, of decidedly inferior flavour, and 
small in size. 
Spring Grove. A red variety of medium 
quality, desirable on account of its 
earliness, and the abundance of fruit 
it bears. 
Victoria. A very large, rich-flavoured, 
and highly-coloured crimson variety, 
with very strong canes. 
The raspberry, from its delicate flavour, 
and continued habit of bearing, is a ge¬ 
neral favorite; and we would recom¬ 
mend the practice of raising a few seed¬ 
lings annually to all who have the re¬ 
quisite space, for there appears abundant 
room for improvement, and from the 
character of the plants we imagine much 
may be done with them; the trouble of 
such a course would be comparatively 
trifling; a few of the finest berries * 
should be marked, and allowed to re¬ 
main on the canes till nature removes 
them, then dry them on soft paper, and 
the seed will be found among the resi¬ 
duum; this may be sown in pans of light 
earth early in February, if they can be 
placed in a cold frame, or left till the 
middle if it is necessary to sow out of 
doors; a warm spot should receive them, 
and the only attention they will require 
will be confined to weeding, and an occa¬ 
sional supply of water; in the third 
season most of them will bear fruit, and 
in the fourth all the remainder. 
BHUBABB. Rheum Rhaponticum 
(Willdenow.) Nat. Ord. Polygonacece. 
Grown for its succulent leaf-stalks, 
Bhubarb is a generally-esteemed sub¬ 
stitute for fresh fruit in tarts and pud¬ 
dings at an early period of the year. 
Plantations of rhubarb to be gathered 
from in the natural season will last many 
years, and do not require to be often 
disturbed; where, however, it is required 
for forcing in any quantity, plants should 
be raised annually from seed; this may 
be sown in drills, two feet apart, any 
time in February or March, and when 
the plants are up they should be thinned 
till they are about a foot apart; they 
may remain in this state for two sea¬ 
sons, and in the third year will be fit 
either for forcing or to be planted out 
permanently. For the latter purpose, 
an open piece of ground, of friable tex¬ 
ture and well enriched with manure, 
should be selected, and after it is tho¬ 
roughly trenched the roots may be sta¬ 
tioned about a yard apart, and if this is 
done in the autumn there will be a good 
crop in the succeeding spring; and with 
the ordinary attention to manuring and 
digging in the autumn of each year, the 
plantation thus made will last a long 
time. Bhubarb is forced in various 
ways, in fact, it is of that easy nature, 
that any warm spot, whether in a shed, 
cellar, hothouse, or any other place, will 
bring it to perfection, so that a mode¬ 
rate supply of water may be given when 
wanted, nor does it matter to any great 
