S98 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Under all the circumstances we may be permitted to entertain the supposi- 

 tion that the separation of the two may possibly be attributed to the very pro- 

 found respect entertained by our later French-American botanist — Michaux — 

 for the conclusions of the great father of botanical science, Linnaeus, who may 

 be supposed to have known little or nothing of this western species. 



ORANGE, 



more commonly designated as " Brinckle's Orange," originated with the late 

 Dr. W. D. Brinckle of Philadelphia, long an earnest and successful experimenter 

 in the field of pomology, and widely and favorably known as the first president 

 of the American Pomological Society. Although confined to the narrow and 

 unfavorable limits of a small, paved city yard, he was, for a considerable 

 period, a decidedly successful originator of seedling strawberries and raspber- 

 ries, though confined chiefly to pots or boxes of earth in which to grow his 

 plants. The Orange raspberry was thus grown from the seed of a red Euro- 

 pean variety, known as Dyack's Seedling, and first fruited in 1845, when two 

 years from the seed. Along with several others, originating at the same time, 

 and under the same apparently forbidding circumstances, it was introduced 

 to the notice of the public by being placed on exhibition at a meeting of the 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, in the year 1850. It soon came into the 

 hands of numerous cultivators, and rapidly won a very high reputation for 

 beauty, high quality, vigor, and productiveness. In September, 1854, at its 

 session in Boston, the American Pomological Society placed it on its list of 

 varieties that promise well. At a meeting of the Western New York Fruit 

 Growers' Society, held at Eochester in 1863, five lists of the best six raspber- 

 ries to be recommended for general cultivation were furnished: one each by 

 Barry, Downing, Lay, Hooker, and Frost, all of which included this raspberry. 

 Indeed, it has proved itself to be one of those very rare fruits that, in all locali- 

 ties and under all circumstances, maintains its high character unabated, 

 although it is, without doubt, most successful on somewhat strong soils. As will 

 be found true of all fruits, however, it will richly repay superior culture. Still, it 

 must be admitted that, with all these desirable qualities, it has serious and, for 

 some purposes, almost fatal defects. The plant is too tender to stand even the 

 winters of Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey unprotected, and nothing 

 short of laying down and covering will carry it safely through even the more 

 moderate of our western winters, if we except our favored "Fruit Belt," in 

 which it seems to have proved sufficiently hardy; and, possibly, in some other 

 exceptionally favored localities, or where it will, with certainty (as in North- 

 ern Michigan), be buried out of harm's way during the entire winter, by the 

 accumulation of the snow. 



The fruit also proves too tender for lengthened land transportation to 

 market, though we see no reason why it may not be foand a desirable and. 

 profitable sort for markets accessible by water, when once it comes to be 

 known and appreciated. Still, with color, excessive delicacy of texture, lack of 

 hardiness and only moderate productiveness against it, the society have doubt- 

 less acted wisely in limiting it, as they have done, to the amateur list. 



PniLAUELPHIA 



appears in the lists of the society, with the recommendation to plant it for 

 market, family and amateur purposes. 



One of the earliest notices we find of this variety we extract from the Maga- 

 zine of Horticulture for 1863, at page 460, as follows: "A native variety. 



