Normally the loganberry is cooked but there are those, like my wife, who like acid fruits, who eat the berries raw with relish, when they are really ripe. The berries are produced in great profusion, being of a deep maroon colour.

Loganberries grow quite happily on their own roots. Feeding the canes. Loganberries have to form new canes each year and it is on these that the fruit is borne. They can be fed in a similar manner to blackberries. The only slight difference, perhaps, being that I have discovered they need more potash. Wood ashes should be used at 6 oz. to the sq. yard, or flue dust at 4 oz. to the sq. yard, each year early in March. Where sulphate of potash is available, made from grapeskins, this could be used at 2 oz. to the sq. yard.

Budding is usually done on any of these stocks in July. Feeding the trees. Medlars do quite well when grown in grass, providing this is cut regularly. For the first three or four years a little circle of soil around the tree may be kept hoed or a mulch of sedge peat may be applied on the ground early in June to the depth of an inch for 3 feet all round the tree.

Prune as soon after picking as possible, cutting away the canes that have just fruited and then tying in the new canes in their place. The straw mulching method as advised for blackberries is ideal. I have never known loganberries to be grassed down but in areas of high rainfall this might be a possibility provided one of the finer-graded grasses was used and providing the grass is cut regularly and fed properly.

The Phenomenal Berry is said to be an improved type of loganberry. It ripens undoubtedly a few days later but does not crop so heavily.

Choice varieties for grapes are Brant. It is a very regular cropper and has lovely coloured ornamental foliage in the autumn. The berries are small, black, with a fair non-muscat flavour; Chasselas 1921. A wonderful wall or cloche grape. Is earlier and produces larger berries than the old-fashioned Golden Challeblas. The grapes are golden and of a non-muscat flavour; Chasselas Rose Royale. Excellent for walls and ganwicks. Good cropper. Berries are medium in size, pink in colour and of an excellent non-muscat flavour. Incidentally, they are very ornamental; Excelsor. Another non-muscat flavour but this time a white. A prolific fruiter, berries of very low acidity. Needs warm conditions and then ripens well in the open; Muscat De Saumur. An exceptionally early-cropping golden muscat grape. Berries of medium size but in large bunches; Muscat Hamburgh. Should only be grown against a hot sunny wall or under cloches or ganwicks. A lovely muscat black large berry. Rather delicate; Muscat Queen. Sometimes called Muscat Reine des Vignes. Excellent for walls and under ganwicks or cloches. Does fairly well in the open. A very large berried early white muscat.