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Show RASPBERRY IS MOST POPULAR One of Best Known Brambles and Belongs to Family Consisting of Many Hundred Species. The raspberry is one of the best known small fruits. In its wild state t has been used as food since the beginning be-ginning of history. This fruit belongs be-longs to the family of brambles consisting con-sisting of many hundred species. The raspberries of commerce are mostly included in three species divided di-vided into two quite distinct types, the reds and blacks. The European red raspberry, Rubus Idaeus, is little grown in this country. The fruit is similar to the American red raspberry rasp-berry in appearance, but, while of better bet-ter quality, the plants are less hardy. The early attempts at red raspberry culture in this country were largely confined to the development of this species, but these have never sucecd-" ed here in the West because it is not adapted to our climatic conditions. The American red raspberry, Rubus strigo-sus, strigo-sus, is of comparatively recent domestication. domes-tication. In the wild state it is found more or less over the northern and eastern United States. |