SYNOPSIS OF RASPBERRIES.

I. SUMMER BEARERS.

1. Fruit Black.

Black

Black Cap

2. Fruit Red.

Barnet

Carter's Prolific Cornwell's Victoria Cushing Fastolf Franconia Knevett's Giant

NorthumberlandFillbasket Prince of Wales Red Antwerp Round Antwerp Vice-President French Walker's Dulcis

3. Fruit Yellow.

Brinckle's Orange Magnum Bonum

Sweet Yellow Antwerp Yellow Antwerp

II. AUTUMNAL BEARERS.

1. Fruit Black.

Autumn Black New Rochelle

Ohio Everbearing

2. Fruit Red.

Belle de Fontenay Large Monthly

October Red Rogers' Victoria

3. Fruit Yellow.

October Yellow

A Gros Fruits Rouges. See Red Antwerp.

American Black. See Black Cap.

D'Anvers a Fruits Ronds. See Round Antwerp.

Autumn Black. - This is a variety raised by Mr. Rivers from the new race of Black Raspberries which he has for some years been experimenting upon. These Black Raspberries are evidently the result of a cross between the Blackberry and the Raspberry, possessing the rambling growth of the former with the large succulent fruit of the latter. The Autumn Black produces from its summer shoots a full crop of medium-sized dark fruit of the colour of the Blackberry, and partaking much of its flavour. Ripe in October.

Barnet (Barnet Cane; Cornwell's Prolific ; Cornwell's Seedling; Large Reds Lord Exmouth's). - The fruit is large, roundish-ovate, of a bright purplish-red colour This is larger than the Red Antwerp, but not equal to it in flavour; it is, nevertheless, an excellent variety, and an abundant summer bearer.

Barnet Cane. See Barnet.

Belle de Fontenay (Belle d'Orleans). - An autumn-bearing variety of dwarf-habit, and with large leaves, quite silvery on their under surface. The fruit is large, round, of a red colour, and good flavour. Ripe in October.

The plant is a shy bearer, and throws up suckers so profusely as to be almost a weed; but if the suckers are thinned out it bears better.

Belle d'Orleans. See Belle de Fontenay.

Black. - This is a hybrid between the Blackberry and the Raspberry, and is the parent of all the black autumn-bearing varieties; although itself a summer-bearer. It has long dark-coloured canes, and small purple fruit, with much of the Blackberry flavour. This variety was obtained at Wethersfield, in Essex, upwards of forty years ago, and has since been cultivated by Mr. Rivers, who has succeeded in obtaining from it his new race of autumn-bearing black varieties.

Black Cap (American Black). - This is the Rubus occidentals, called Black Raspberry, or Thimbleberry, by the Americans. The fruit has a fine brisk acid flavour, and is much used in America for pies and puddings. It ripens later than the other summer-bearing varieties.

Brinckle's Orange (Orange). - A variety introduced from America, where it is considered the finest yellow sort in cultivation. In this country it is smaller than the Yellow Antwerp, and more acid. The plants throw up an abundance of suckers. It is a summer bearer.

Burley. See Red Antwerp.

Carter's Prolific. - Fruit large and round, of a deep red colour, with a firm flesh of excellent flavour. A summer-bearing variety.

De Chili. See Yellow Antwerp.

Cornwell's Prolific. See Barnet.

Cornwell's Seedling. See Barnet.

Cornwell's Victoria. - The fruit of this variety is large, and of fine flavour, but its drupes adhere so closely to the core as to crumble off in gathering. A summer bearer.

Cushing. - Fruit large, roundish, inclining to conical, of a bright crimson colour, and with a briskly-acid flavour. A summer bearer.

Cutbush's Prince of Wales. See Prince of Wales.

Double-Bearing Yellow. See Yelloto Antwerp.

Fastolf (Filby). - -Fruit large, roundish-conical, bright purplish red, and of excellent flavour. A summer bearer.

Filby. See Fastolf.

Franconia. - Fruit large, obtuse-conical, of a dark purplish-red colour, and good flavour, briskly acid. A summer bearer.

French. See Vice-President French. Howland's Red Antwerp. See Red Antwerp. Knevett's Antwerp. See Red Antwerp.

Knevett's Giant. - Fruit large, obtuse-conical, deep red, and of good flavour. A summer bearer.

Large Monthly (Large-fruited Monthly; Rivers' Monthly; de Tons le Mois a GrosFruits Rouges). - This is a most abundant bearing autumnal variety, producing fruit above the medium size, roundish-conical, of a crimson colour, and of excellent flavour.

Large Red. See Barnet.

Late-bearing Antwerp. See Red Antwerp.

Lawton. See New Rochelle.

Lord Exmouth's. See Barnet.

Magnum Bonum. - A yellow summer-bearing variety, inferior in size and flavour to Yellow Antwerp. The fruit is of a pale yellow colour with firm flesh. The plant, like Brinckle's Orange and Belie de Fontenay, becomes a perfect weed from the profusion of suckers it throws up.

Merveille de Quatre Saisons Jaune. See October Yellow.

Merveille de Quatre Saisons Rouge. See October Red.

New Rochelle (Lawton; Seacor's Mammoth). - An American autumn-bearing variety, having the rambling habit of growth of the common Bramble. It produces fruit in great abundance of a large oval shape, and a deep black colour, very juicy, and agreeably flavoured.

This has not been sufficiently proved in this country to admit of a correct estimate being formed of its merits.

Northumberland Fillbasket. - Fruit rather large, roundish, inclining to conical, of a deep red colour, and good flavour. The plant is a strong vigorous grower, and an abundant summer bearer.

October Red (Merveille de Quatre Saisons Rouge.) - The fruit of this variety produced from the old canes left in spring is small and inferior; but the suckers put forth in June furnish an abundant crop of large-sized bright red fruit, which commences to ripen in September and continuing far into November, if the autumn be dry and mild.

October Yellow (Merveille de Quatre Saisons Jaune). - This possesses the same qualities as the preceding, and is distinguished from it by the fruit being yellow. It is not quite so large as the Yellow Antwerp, and in a fine season is sweet and agreeable.

Ohio EverbEaring. - This is an American variety, similar in all respects to Black Cap, with this exception that it is an autumnal-bearing variety, and produces abundant crops of fruit late in the season.

Orange. See Brinckle's Orange.

Prince of Wales (Cutbush's Prince of Wales). - Fruit large, roundish, inclining to conical, of a deep crimson colour, and with a brisk, agreeable flavour. This is a summer-bearing variety, remarkable for its strong pale-coloured canes, which in rich soils grow from ten to twelve feet in one season. It does not sucker too much, and is very desirable on that account.

Red Antwerp (Burley; a Gros Fruits Rouges; Howland's Red Antwerp; Knevett's Antwerp ; Late Bearing Antwerp). - Fruit large, roundish, inclining to conical, of a deep crimson colour, very fleshy, and with a fine brisk flavour and fine bouquet. There are several forms of this variety differing more or less from each other both in the fruit and the canes. The true old Red Antwerp produces vigorous canes, which are almost smooth.

Rivers' Monthly. See Large Monthly.

Rogers' Victoria (Victoria). - This is an autumnal-bearing variety, producing rather large, dark-red fruit of excellent flavour, and earlier than the October Red. The plant is of a dwarf and rather delicate habit, and the canes are dark coloured.

Round Antwerp (d'Anvers a Fruits Ronds). - Fruit large and round, of a deep red colour, and much superior in flavour to the Old Red Antwerp.

Seacor's Mammoth. See New Rochelle.

Sweet Yellow Antwerp. - The fruit of this variety is larger and more orange than the Yellow Antwerp, and is the richest and sweetest of all the varieties. The canes are remarkably slender, and with few spines.

Vice-President French (French). - Fruit large, roundish, inclining to conical, of a deep red colour, fleshy and juicy, and with an excellent flavour. It is a summer bearer, producing very strong canes of a bright brown colour.

Victoria. See Sogers' Victoria.

Walkeb's Dulcis. - A summer-bearing variety, producing red fruit inferior in size to the Antwerp, and not sweet, as the name implies.

White Antwerp. See Yellow Antwerp.

Yellow Antwerp (De Chili; Double-bearing Yellow; White Antwerp). - Fruit large, conical, of a pale yellow colour, and with a fine, mild,.sweet flavour. It produces pale-coloured spiny canes.

LIST OF SELECT RASPBERRIES.

Autumn Black Carter's Prolific Fastolf October Red

October Yellow Rogers' Victoria Round Antwerp Sweet Yellow Antwerp