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Parry, the keen observer, discovered its worth, and gave it the name of "Queen 

 of the Market." 



The Cuthbert is the most profitable red raspberry that I have seen. It is 

 large, firm, handsome, and very rich in quality. It is perfectly hardy here, 

 where the Kittatinny blackberry often winter-kills, but in some parts of the 

 west and north my patrons write me that it will not stand the winters. In a 

 very severe climate there is nothing that can be so safely recommended as the 

 Turner, which I planted at an early day, wholly relying on Mr. P. 0. Reynolds' 

 impressions on seeing it in bearing, and I was not misled. — 0. A. Green in 

 Rural Home. 



THE SNYDER BLACKBERRY. 



The Snyder blackberry originated on or near the farm of Mr. Snyder, near 

 La Porte, Ind., about the vear 1851. Like the two above mentioned, it is a 

 chance seedling of the llubus villosus, or High blackberry of the fields and. 

 hillsides. We visited Mr. Roe's small fruit farm and nurseries about three 

 weeks before the Snyder ripened its berries, and were both surprised and 

 pleased at his field of this blackberry. The Snyder is wonderfully productive. 

 The plants are very vigorous and stocky, and ripen their fruit quite early. 

 The great desideratum among blackberries has been one that is perfectly hardy, 

 and this want has been met in great part by the Snyder, which endures without 

 any serious injury the extremes of temperature of the northern States. The 

 great fault of the Snyder is the size of the berry, which is somewhat below the 

 Kittatinny and Lawton. On this point Mr. Roe says, in his " Success with 

 small Fruits" : "On moist land, with judicious pruning, it could be made to 

 approach them very nearly, however, while its earliness, hardiness, fine flavor, 

 and ability to grow and yield abundantly almost anywhere, will tend to an 

 increased popularity. For home use, size is not so important as flavor and cer- 

 tainty of a crop. It is also more nearly ripe when first black, than any other 

 kind that I have seen; its thorns are straight and therefore less vicious. I find 

 that it is growing steadily in popular favor; and when the Kittatinny is winter- 

 killed this hardy new variety leaves little cause for repining." — Rural New 

 Yorker. 



THE IDEAL STRAWBERRY. 



Rev. E. P. Roe says: "I doubt whether the ideal strawberry, that shall 

 concentrate every excellence within its one juicy sphere, ever will be discovered 

 or originated. AVe shall always have to make a choice, as we do in friends, 

 for their several good qualities and their power to please our individual tastes. 

 There is, however, one perfect strawberry in existence, — the strawberry of 

 memory, — the little wildlings that we gathered, perhaps, with those over whom 

 the wild strawberry is now growing. We will admit no fault in it, and, 

 although we may no longer seek for this favorite fruit of our childhood, with 

 the finest specimens of the garden before us, we sigh for those berries that 

 grew on some far-off hill-side in years still farther away." 



