1905 | Blanchard, The Yellow-Fruited Raspberry 143 
You probably have frequent opportunities of sending to New York. 
A package for me may be left in charge of my friend Franklin Brown, 
Esqr. 27. Beekman St. who will have frequent opportunities of for- 
warding it to me during the months of April & May.— 
I will send to you. unless you otherwise order. through the Revd. 
Mr. Van Vleck. With many thanks for your kindness and good 
wishes I remain 
Dear Sir 
Yours very respectfully 
Asa Gray. 
P. S. Your letter was directed to me as the Revd. A. Gray which 
was probably a “lapsus pennae,” and was the reason why it was 
mislaid at the Post office and did not reach me in due season. Tho’ 
not in practice I belong to the medical profession. 
A G. 
THE YELLOW-FRUITED VARIETY OF THE BLACK 
RASPBERRY. 
W. H. BLANCHARD. 
THE interesting yellow-fruited form of Rubus occidentalis, L. was 
well known to our horticulturists long before our botanists knew it, 
as were several species of blackberries and the hybrid raspberries. 
Beyond the few very recent specimens mentioned below I have not 
been able to learn of it in any herbarium. 
The first mention I can find of it was in 1833, when William 
Kenrick,' after naming varieties of Rubus /daeus, L., then in cultiva- 
tion, speaks of the “Black American Raspberry” and “White 
American Raspberry " as being “quite distinct from the above.” 
.I have not searched agricultural and horticultural periodicals but 
have examined all the books I could find bearing on the subject. It 
is next mentioned in 1845 by A. J. Downing.? Having noticed the 
“American Black Raspberry " he mentions this. “The American 
! New American Orchardist, Boston, 1833, Ed. 1, p. 342. 
2 Fruit and Fruit Trees of America, N. Y., 1845, Ed. 1, p. 516. 
