At-rums FRUITS.
Many of us, I hope, are still enjoying some very delicious English fruit, large and luscious, that used to belong only to late spring. The best that I have seen and tasted came from the garden of a retired army officer who has taken up gardening as a profession. It happened by a coincidence that I had been hearing hard things said about false claims made for this same fruit, the Hailsham berry. A good many amateurs have, I think, given it up on the ground that it is at best little different from an ordinary raspberry ; and more difficult to grow. But those who have seen it properly cultivated cannot doubt its exceptional qualities. It will bear freely as late in the year as October; and in the garden to which I refer it has been bearing very freely through this September. But it is not only an autumn raspberry. The same shoots that bear now will bear again in the spring ; and if pruning is timed suitably to this double-fruiting habit, I cannot but think that the Hailsham berry is a real addition to the gardens, though possibly other similar varieties with like habit may be of yet higher worth. What matters is that the raspberry harvest may now be extended for months. * * * *
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