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RaspberriesVARIETIES GLEN AMPLE: Is now Britain’s number-one raspberry variety. Produces heavy crops with excellent flavour, and its canes have the added advantage of being spine-free. TULAMEEN: Tulameen has no problem with cold winters, though it takes a while to get started. Its fruit is notable for both flavour and fragrance, and is borne on tall canes from July to August. T/PLUS: A Tulameen cross primocane with large fruit similar to the Tulameen; extending the season to autumn. GLEN DOLL: Is a late season Scottish variety which begins picking 5-7 days after Glen Ample and fruits mid August. GLEN FYNE: A Scottish variety which has a sweet and aromatic flavour consistent throughout the season. The fruit is bright red and attractive, slightly conical in shape and berries are firm with a shelf life as long as the Glen Ample. GLEN AMPLE: Deep red in colour Glen Ample produces large fleshly fruits. Cropping early July and carries through to mid-August highest yields being at the end of July. DRISCOLL MARAVILLA: A primocane variety that crops all season from late June to late autumn. Maravilla offers good flavour, excellent size and very reliable shelf left and is a heavy cropping variety. HISTORY Raspberries have only really been cultivated in Britain since the seventeenth century; before that they were mostly collected from the wild. Originally there were only two cultivated varieties – the red and the white – but new, larger varieties arrived via Antwerp from Hungary in the eighteenth century, and from these were developed the kind of raspberries we know today. From Roman times until the eighteenth century raspberries were grown as much for their juice (which was considered to have beneficial medical qualities) as for their fruit, and raspberry wine continued to be popular well into the Victorian era; raspberry vinegar and raspberry cordials continue to be popular today. By the end of the nineteenth century there were numerous varieties to choose from, though sadly none of them have come down to us, as raspberries – like strawberries – have always been susceptible to viral diseases, which build up in plants over a period of years and gradually reduce their vitality and the quality of their fruit. Even the most widely grown varieties, such as the enormously successful Lloyd George (found as a chance seedling in a Kentish wood and first sold in 1919), eventually had to be withdrawn from cultivation. East Malling Research Station in Kent undertakes pioneering research into raspberry breeding which has led to the introduction of virus-resistant varieties and the setting up of the Nuclear Stock Association which safeguards a core stock of virus-free plants in a sterile environment. The Scottish Crop Research Institute near Dundee is another important research and breeding programme that uses the cool, damp Scottish climate which is ideal for raspberry growing. Scottish farmers today produce around 2,400 tonnes of raspberries every year. The British raspberry season runs from June to October, but European raspberries are also available from February through to April. |
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