for the Cuthbert to start in, and the plants will need only a moderate degree of fertilizing as they begin to lose a little of their first vigor.  Of course, if the ground is unusually light and poor, it should be enriched and maintained in a fair degree of fertility.  The point I wish to make is that this variety will thrive where most others would starve; but there is plenty of land on which anything will starve.  The Cuthbert is a large, late berry, which continues long in bearing, and is deserving of a place in every garden.  I have grown it for many years, and have never given it any protection whatever.  Occasionally there comes a winter which kills the canes to the ground.  I should perhaps explain to the reader here that even in the case of the tender foreign kinds it is only the canes that are killed by the frost; the roots below the surface are uninjured, and throw up vigorous sprouts the following spring.  The Cuthbert is so nearly hardy that we let it take its chances, and probably in eight winters out of ten it would stand unharmed.  Its hardiness is greatly enhanced when grown on well-drained soils.

It now has a companion berry in the Marlboro—­a variety but recently introduced, and therefore not thoroughly tested as yet.  Its promise, however, is very fine, and it has secured the strong yet qualified approval of the best fruit critics.  It requires richer soil and better treatment than the Cuthbert, and it remains to be seen whether it is equally hardy.  It is well worth winter protection if it is not.  It is not a suitable berry for the home garden if no other is grown, for the reason that it matures its entire crop within a brief time, and thus would give a family but a short season of raspberries.  Cultivated in connection with the Cuthbert, it would be admirable, for it is very early, and would produce its fruit before the Cuthberts were ripe.  Unitedly the two varieties would give a family six weeks of raspberries.  There are scores of other kinds in this class, and some are very good indeed, well worth a place in an amateur’s collection; but the two already named are sufficient to supply a family with excellent fruit.

Of the third class of red raspberries, representing our pure native species, I should recommend only one variety—­the Turner; and that is so good that it deserves a place in every collection.  It certainly is a remarkable raspberry, and has an unusual history, which I have given in my work “Success with Small Fruits.”  I doubt whether there is a hardier raspberry in America—­ one that can be grown so far to the north, and, what is still more in its favor, so far to the south.  In the latter region it is known as the Southern Thornless.  The fact that it is almost wholly without spines is a good quality; but it is only one among many others.  The Turner requires no winter protection whatever, will grow on almost any soil in existence, and in almost any climate.  It yields abundantly medium-sized