. Success with small fruits . our memoryas the wild strawberry. It grows best along the edge of woodlands and inhalf-shadowy places that seem equally adapted to lovers rambles. In justsuch a nook as we perhaps recall, the artist has portrayed a youth who, witha cluster of the ruby fruit, is heightening the effect of loves shy crimson, melting berry is the type of their present experience. Thefates forbid that the Scotch term. Raspis, should suggest what is to come! Nature, too, in a kindly mood, seems to have scattered the seeds of thisfruit along the road-side, thus fringing the h
. Success with small fruits . our memoryas the wild strawberry. It grows best along the edge of woodlands and inhalf-shadowy places that seem equally adapted to lovers rambles. In justsuch a nook as we perhaps recall, the artist has portrayed a youth who, witha cluster of the ruby fruit, is heightening the effect of loves shy crimson, melting berry is the type of their present experience. Thefates forbid that the Scotch term. Raspis, should suggest what is to come! Nature, too, in a kindly mood, seems to have scattered the seeds of thisfruit along the road-side, thus fringing the highway in dusty, hot July withambrosial food. Professor Gray thus describes the native red species: 7?. Strigosns,Wild Red R. Common, especially North ; from two to three feet high ; i6o Success with Small Fruits. the upright stems, stalks, etc., beset with copious bristles, and some ofthem becoming weak prickles, also glandular; leaflets oblong-ovate,pointed, cut-serrate, white-downy beneath, the lateral ones (either one or. — Natures Rouge. two pairs) not stalked ; petals as long as the sepals ; fruit light-red, tenderand watery, but high flavored, ripening all summer. The second great American species, R. Occidetttalis, will be describedhereafter. Since this book is not designed to teach botany, I shall notrefer to the other species,— R. Trifloriis, R. OdoTatus, R. Nntkamio, etc.,—which are of no practical value, and, for the present, will confine myselfto the propagation and cultivation of R. IdcBus and R. Strigosus, and theirseedlings. PROPAGATION. Usually, varieties of these two species throw up suckers from theroots in sufficient abundance for all practical purposes, and theseyoung canes from between the hills or rows are, in most instances, the Propagation. 161 plants of commerce, and the means of extending our plantations. Butwhere a variety is scarce, or the purpose is to increase it rapidly, we candig out the many interlacing roots that fill the soil between th
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