This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V28", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
When we read here and there that this or that variety of fruit is " no good," we must remember that this is usually from the market-growers' standpoint. The Catawissa Raspberry would not earn its salt from anyone who should plant it for market. But what a glorious delicacy it is for the amateur! Plants should be cut to the ground in the spring, and very rich food given it. Through August and September it will yield large quantities of raspberries of the most delicious flavor. We know of no variety that can compete with it in toothsome-ness.
 
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