THE RED A N TW ERP RA S PB ER RY .
Red Antwerp Raspberry. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. p . 196.
Large Red Antwerp Raspberry. Forsyth’s Treatise, ed. 5
p . 242.
This variety has now been long established in our
Gardens : it was the first improvement in size on the
common native red Raspberry of our woods, and it
maintains its station with the market gardeners,
because it is an abundant bearer, ripens early, and
bears carriage well.
In situations where the plants grow with much
vigour, a crop is sometimes produced in the autumn
on the shoots of the y e a r ; this is, however, at all
times but a scanty one, and too small to entitle the
kind to the name of a double-bearing variety.
Canes strong and long, yellowish green, slightly
glaucous, occasionally tinged with purple, covered
below with dark-brown bristles, which decrease in
quantity upwards: early in the autumn the canes
change colour, and become entirely brown sooner
than those of most others.
B earing Wood vigorous, and nearly smooth.
Leaves large, slightly rugose, plaited, irregularly
serrated, dark green.