. Success with small fruits . lanted in alternate rows with thePhiladelphia. This parentage would make it a hybrid of the R. Strigosusand the purple cane branch of the R. Occidentalis species; but the plantand fruit indicate the presence, also, of the R. Idceiis element. Afterseveral years experience on my own place, I regard it as the best earlyraspberry in existence. The berry is large, obtusely conical, bright red,and delicious in flavor. It is scarcely firm enough for market where it The Raspberries of the Future. 193 must be sent any great distance, but if picked promptly after it reddens
. Success with small fruits . lanted in alternate rows with thePhiladelphia. This parentage would make it a hybrid of the R. Strigosusand the purple cane branch of the R. Occidentalis species; but the plantand fruit indicate the presence, also, of the R. Idceiis element. Afterseveral years experience on my own place, I regard it as the best earlyraspberry in existence. The berry is large, obtusely conical, bright red,and delicious in flavor. It is scarcely firm enough for market where it The Raspberries of the Future. 193 must be sent any great distance, but if picked promptly after it reddens,and packed in a cool, airy place, like that under my northern piazza,suggested in the engraving, it carries well and brings good prices. The ^ __^ _^ canes are ,, * , ?. -^ i - stocky and ^K ^*^li^w^^~ ^»jm >^,^ ^ covered with ?^ spmes. 1 hey Ji*^¥t?l ^ ^^t half-hardy, and-V*// 1 thmk it is best tocovei them before thefirst of December, in ourlatitude. The canes of theSaunders, also sent out byMr. Herstine, are much.
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