. The book of the garden. Gardening. 574 FRUIT GARDEN. Victoria.—Another English seedling of recent date. It fully equals the Sed Antway in size and flavour, and excels it in the long continu- ance of its production, yielding fruit from" July to the beginning of November. Canes of moderate height and strength, sending out numerous branches from 18 inches to 2 feet in length. Synonyms—Cornwall's Victoria, Su- perbe d'Angleterre. While globe.—Size of fruit medium ; form roundish; described by the Messrs Lawsou as " very prolific, bearing its fruit in large clusters; canes strong, with
. The book of the garden. Gardening. 574 FRUIT GARDEN. Victoria.—Another English seedling of recent date. It fully equals the Sed Antway in size and flavour, and excels it in the long continu- ance of its production, yielding fruit from" July to the beginning of November. Canes of moderate height and strength, sending out numerous branches from 18 inches to 2 feet in length. Synonyms—Cornwall's Victoria, Su- perbe d'Angleterre. While globe.—Size of fruit medium ; form roundish; described by the Messrs Lawsou as " very prolific, bearing its fruit in large clusters; canes strong, with thickly-set bristles, but of a dwarf habit, and needs no stakes; very ; White monarch.—Fruit large; form roundish or conical; colour pale yellow ; canes strong, with many side - branches ; flavour excellent ; producing fruit in succession for several weeks. Yellow Antwerp.—Frruit large, nearly conical, whitish yellow; flavour sweet and excellent ; canes strong, light yellow, with many bristles or spines. Synonyms — Double - bearing yellow, White Antwerp. The varieties cultivated in the Dalkeith gar- dens are—Falstoff, Red and yellow Antwerp, Franconia, Rivers' large-fruited monthly, Rogers' Victoria, White globe, and Double-bearing. From ten out of fifteen returns from various parts of Britain, the Bed and Yellow Antwerp, Falstoff, Double - bearing, and Cornwall's red or Barnet, only are grown. Insects and diseases.—The raspberry is sel-. dom seriously attacked by either. The fruit, when ripe, is frequently found to contain the grub of, so far as we are aware, an undeter- mined insect, and this occurs more frequently when the plants are growing in too poor, too shallow, or too dry a situation. The raspberry leaf-miner (Fanusa pumila), Fig. (CfflKW. 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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