. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 423 Fig. 393. .l^iki a. Ked b. raslol£f. r. Franconia. The most common of the dark-fruited raspberries is the American Black, the red-cane variety whicli for so many years has been extensively cultivated for the New York mar- ket. It is perfectly hardy, and bears abundant crops of rather small but well-flavored, though not fir
. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 423 Fig. 393. .l^iki a. Ked b. raslol£f. r. Franconia. The most common of the dark-fruited raspberries is the American Black, the red-cane variety whicli for so many years has been extensively cultivated for the New York mar- ket. It is perfectly hardy, and bears abundant crops of rather small but well-flavored, though not first-class fruit. The double-bearing, of which there are several varieties, jdeld a partial second crop of fruit of middling character late in the fall, just when peaches abound, and are therefore of no special importance. The Yellow Antwerp bears a fine, large, thimble-formed berry, and shows well upon the talile when mixed with the red, but it also is tender, and has, in common with its inferior varieties, a certain degree of faint sweetness in the flavor that requires mingling with something more acid to make it agree- able. The Orange, which resembles it, is later in ripening, and hardier. Raspberries should stand in rows six or eight feet wide, the bushes being from two to four feet apart in the rows, accord- ing to the habit of the kind planted. The soil can scarcely be made too rich and warm for them. They require only winter pruning, which consists simply in removing the old dead canes, and shortening the ends of the young shoots, to bring the rampant growers within bounds and strengthen the sjring growth, upon which all the fruit is borne. They should be cut back to about four feet high if we desire fine fruit, and, if at all weak, might be pruned still shorter to Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resem
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