. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. RASPBERRIES. iS; and in our garden, where birds abound, raspberries come up all over the place. Particular varieties are propagated by suckers. The canes which have fruited are cut down in autumn, and two or three of the year's growth are left to fruit the next year. Sometimes we have tied these canes to sticks, and at other times we have tied them to wires stretching between posts. There is an autumnat. Fig, 355.—FalstafF Red Raspberry. Fig. 356.—Yellow Autumn Raspberr
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. RASPBERRIES. iS; and in our garden, where birds abound, raspberries come up all over the place. Particular varieties are propagated by suckers. The canes which have fruited are cut down in autumn, and two or three of the year's growth are left to fruit the next year. Sometimes we have tied these canes to sticks, and at other times we have tied them to wires stretching between posts. There is an autumnat. Fig, 355.—FalstafF Red Raspberry. Fig. 356.—Yellow Autumn Raspberry, raspberry (fig. 356) which gives us some years, though not invariably, fruit as late as November. A dish of the autumn raspberries is particularly grateful and refreshing; but I never could find out how to manage it so as to be sure of fruit. The autumn raspberries are both yellow and red: I have figured th-^ yellow. We have Rivers' cross between the Blackberry and Raspberry, but it very seldom sets any fruit: I have only had a few berries, which are of a dark colour and fair flavour, but not so good as either the Blackberry or Raspberry. Its want of productiveness makes it useless at present; nevertheless the experiment is quite worth further trial. He has raised other varieties also, which are stated to be better; of these I have one or two which have not yet fruited. The Raspberry is of great value in a household, and therefore should be always freely grown. It grows wild plentifully near Weybridge, but not so profusely as it does in Scotland, where it is more common than the Blackberry. GRAPE VINES. At various times I have grown at my garden many kinds of grapes, but for want of space the number has been gradually limited to a few. The varieties in cultivation are innumerabre, and a. 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 perf
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