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and blossoms, and the fruit in every stage from green up to full 

 ripe, on the bush, stayed by the hand of nature in the midst of 

 their jiroductiveness. The fruit is preferred by many to the Red 

 Antwerp, and with its large erect clusters of flowers, presents a 

 beautiful appearance. 



" Mr. Longw^orth, in a communication describing this fruit, in 

 the Gardener^ s Magazine^ states that tin* plants, in light dry soils, 

 are not very productive in the autumn crop; but if grown on a 

 stiff loam, on a clayey subsoil, bear profusely till destroyed by 

 frost. From all that has been said in relation to it, it appears a 

 desirable fruit, and w^e hope soon to test its qualities ourselves." 



One is not quite sure, after reading the above extracts, whether 

 this varietv came from New York or Ohio. It is first said that 

 the plant was '' found in New York state, near Lake Erie," but 

 it was growing only in the garden of Mr. Longworth and 

 with the Shakers at Lebanon, w^hich is thirty miles from Cin- 

 cinnati. In the second extract it is said that the plant w^as found 

 ^' in the northern part of the state," but the name of the state 

 is not mentioned. All doubts are set at rest, however, if one 

 consults Longworth's own account of the berry in the Gardener'^ 

 Magazine of London, to which reference is made in the second 

 article quoted above. Dating his communication at Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, Sept. 30, 1S41, Mr. Longworth says: "When driven into 

 the interior of the state by the cholera, in September and Octo- 

 ber of 1832, I found a raspberry in full bearing, a native of our 

 state, and the only ever-bearing raspberry I have ever met w^lth." 

 Longw^orth moved to Cincinnati about 1804 and lived there until 

 his death, in 1863. In this letter to the London periodical. Long- 

 worth expresses the belief that this raspberry would succeed in 

 England, and he sent plants of it there by James Howarth, who 

 went to the old country " to purchase plants." The editor of the 

 magazine adds a note that '' plants of this raspberry are in a 

 London nursery, but none of them will be sold till the worth 

 of the varietv is tested." 



Indigenous raspberry growing began with this Ohio Everbear- 

 ing variety; but the contemporaneous Ohio has no connection 

 with this historical berrv save an accidental similarity of name. 



