berries of good flavor.  The fruit begins to ripen early, and lasts throughout a somewhat extended season.  It will probably give more berries, with more certainty and less trouble, than any other variety.  Even its fault leans to virtue’s side.  Set out a single plant, leave it to Nature, and in time it will cover the place with Turner raspberries; and yet it will do this in a quiet, unobtrusive way, for it is not a rampant, ugly grower.  While it will persist in living under almost any circumstances, I have found no variety that responded more gratefully to good treatment.  This consists simply in three things:  (1) rigorous restriction of the suckers to four or five canes in the hill; (2) keeping the soil clean and mellow about the bearing plants; (3) making this soil rich.  Its dwarf habit of growth, unlike that of the Cuthbert, enables one to stimulate it with any kind of manure.  By this course the size of the bushes is greatly increased, and enormous crops can be obtained.

I prefer to set out all raspberries in the fall, although as a matter of convenience I often perform the task in the early spring.  I do not believe in late spring planting, except as one takes up a young sprout, two or three inches high, and sets it out as one would a tomato-plant.  By this course time is often saved.  When it is our wish to increase the quality and quantity of the fruit, I should advise that the canes of all varieties be cut back one-third of their length.  A little observation will teach us the reason for this.  Permit a long cane to bear throughout its natural length, and you will note that many buds near the ground remain dormant or make a feeble growth.  The sap, following a general law of nature, pushes to the extremities, and is, moreover, too much diffused.  Cut away one-third, and all the buds start with redoubled vigor, while more and larger fruit is the result.  If, however, earliness in ripening is the chief consideration, as it often is, especially with the market-gardener, leave the canes unpruned, and the fruit ripens a few days sooner.

In purveying for the home table, white raspberries offer the attractions of variety and beauty.  In the case of Brinckle’s Orange, its exquisite flavor is the chief consideration; but this fastidious foreign berry is practically beyond the reach, of the majority.  There is, however, an excellent variety, the Caroline, which is almost as hardy as the Turner, and more easily grown.  It would seem that Nature designed every one to have it (if we may say it of Caroline), for not only does it sucker freely like the red raspberries, but the tips of the canes also bend over, take root, and form new plants.  The one thing that Caroline needs is repression, the curb; she is too intense.