Why take the risk
to save a two-penny stake?
If, just before the fruit begins to ripen, a mulch of leaves, cut
grass, or any litter that will cover the ground slightly, is
placed under and around the bushes, it may save a great deal of
fruit from being spoiled. The raspberry season is also the hour
and opportunity for thunder-showers, whose great slanting drops
often splash the soil to surprising distances. Sugar-and-cream-
coated, not mud-coated, berries, if you please.
In my remarks on raspberries I have not named many varieties, and
have rather laid stress on the principles which may guide the
reader in his present and future selections of kinds. Sufficient
in number and variety to meet the NEEDS of every family have been
mentioned. The amateur may gratify his taste by testing other
sorts described in nurserymen's catalogues. Moreover, every year
or two some new variety will be heralded throughout the land. The
reader has merely to keep in mind the three classes of raspberries
described and their characteristics, in order to make an
intelligent choice from old and new candidates for favor.
It should also be remembered that the raspberry is a Northern
fruit. I am often asked in effect, What raspberries do you
recommend for the Gulf States? I suppose my best reply would be,
What oranges do you think best adapted to New York? Most of the
foreign kinds falter and fail in New Jersey and Southern
Pennsylvania; the Cuthbert and its class can be grown much further
south, while the Turner and the black-caps thrive almost to
Florida.
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