This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V22", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
Canada is the paradise of raspberry culture. They talk there about Antwerps and other choice varieties as amongst the most profitable to cultivate. The thickets and wild places abound with delicious fruit, and" going a raspberrying " is the favorite summer pastime with Canadian lads and lasses. The writer of this has delicious recollections of "hand fulls" that have served for dinner in botanical excursions through Canadian Tama-rac swamps; and altogether he is sure that if there is one thing more than another for which a fruit lover might be pardoned, it would be the wish to be around in Canada during raspberry time.
 
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