422 Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



somewhat similar to the common purple raspberry, the shoots of 

 •which are very vigorous, bending over and touching the ground, 

 and take root, by which mode it is rapidly increased. Its mode 

 of producing its fruit is as follows: In the spring the old shoots 

 throw out their new branches, as in other sorts upon which the 

 first crop appears, but soon the new shoots begin to grow, and 

 when they have attained a good size, which is generally just 

 before the first crop is gone, they produce the second crop; to 

 this latter circumstance it owes its name, and its peculiarity. 

 The fruit of the second crop is considered the best. It is grown 

 by Mr. Longworth, of Cincinnati, and by the Shakers near 

 Lebanon, but has not yet found its way into any of our Atlantic 

 cities." 



The next account I find of this berry is in the Magazine of 

 Horticulture for 1842: 



" The Everbearing Raspberry. — In our Vol. Ill, p. 154, under 

 our Miscellaneous Notices, we gave an account [quoted above] 

 of this fruit which had then just been brought into notice: since 

 then, we have heard very little of it till the past year. It is now 

 attracting more attention, and as it is deemed a valuable acquisi- 

 tion, we have copied, a further description of it below, which we 

 find in the American Agriculturist: 



" The Ohio Everbearing raspberry was first discovered some 

 fifteen years ago, in the northern part of the state, near Lake 

 Erie, but in what particular part is unknown. Mr. Longworth, 

 of Cincinnati, introduced it into his garden in 1832, at which 

 period he was driven into the back country by the cholera, where 

 he found it growing. It has been little known, however, in Cin- 

 cinnati, until within the last two years, but there is now great 

 effort made by the gardeners to cultivate it for the market of 

 that city. The fruit resembles the wild native raspberry, but is 

 much larger, more fleshy, and of a much finer flavor, and is 

 always a very profuse bearer. In Cincinnati, the wood of the 

 previous j'ear bears one crop in June, after which it soon dies; 

 the young shoots then come into bearing, and continue doing so 

 into October, till the frost cuts them off, when may be seen buds 



