420 Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



drawing forty-six at a load, as illustrated. The wagon is a 

 broad tire half-truck, with springs which raise the rack only 

 about four inches above the bolster, and carries 4,500 pounds. 

 When shipping, we draw 20 barrels on end on such a rack." 



II. HISTORY OF THE OHIO RASPBERRY. 



Confusion has arisen concerning the histor^^ of the Ohio rasp- 

 berry which is so extensively grown in New York for the evapo- 

 rating industry (see Bulletin 100), because of the fact that the 

 Ohio raspberry of the books is a distinct variety. The history 

 of this Ohio raspberry of New York is given in the report of the 

 Iowa Horticultural Society for 1886 (page 88), but some of the 

 details seem to be inaccurate. I now put on record the true 

 history of this invaluable berry, as written for me by Dr. H. P. 

 VanDusen, of Rochester, N. Y.: 



" Some where in the sixties, my grandfather, Hiram VanDusen, 

 of Palmyra, N. Y., bought a lot of Doolittle plants of Mr. Purdy, 

 of same place, enough to plant something less than an acre. 

 When these plants were getting old and nearly worthless, he 

 discovered a plant which was apparently as good as new. He 

 also knew from previous observation that it ripened later, was 

 firmer and always loaded. He took pains to get tips down, and 

 secured a few plants, and from these still more, until he had two 

 rows a few rods long. At this time, my father bought this stock 

 of him, and my father and myself increased the stock rapidly. 

 We had also Mammoth Cluster, Seneca Black Cap, Doolittle and 

 others. Its value was more and more impressed upon us until 

 about 1876, when I sent out a circular offering plants for sale. 

 The circular increased in size from jeav to year, and in 1882 or 

 1883 I received orders for more than a million plants, nearly 

 three times the stock I had on hand. The Doolittle plants 

 amongst which this variety was found, came from Ohio, and to 

 distinguish it from the Doolittle, grandfather called it the Ohio. 

 Some years later another berry under the name of Ohio came 

 to our notice, but it was worthless and never came into general 

 cultivation.^' 



