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The other Mammoth is the one referred to in the letter above quoted as coming from 

 a firm in Jackson county, Illinois. I understand this firm to be Bailey and Hanford, 

 which is now dissolved. I have been unable to get any direct statement of the variety. 

 I have received the plant from a party who obtained it indirectly from Bailey and 

 Hanford, and it is distinct from Bartel, for it belongs, apparently, to the type form of 

 Rubus Canadensis. I know nothing yet of the value of this Mammoth, but it is cer- 

 tain that it has not yet become generally known. 



In regard to this confusion, Mr. Stone writes me as follows: " The Bartel was 

 introduced as Bartel Mammoth and is generally known by this name now, but the 

 name Mammoth has been dropped by some on account of there having been an entirely 

 worthless variety called Mammoth sent out quite extensively. It is for this reason that 

 I have dropped Mammoth. The variety sent out under the name had a much larger 

 cane and blossomed freely but never set any fruit; at least this was the case with the 

 stock I had." 



7. General Grant (Rubus Canadensis var. invisus). — This variety was introduced 

 by Charles A. Green of Rochester, N. Y., in 1885 or 1886, as a premium to his Fruit 

 Grower. It came from M. W. Broyles, somewhere in Tennessee. Mr. Green informs 

 me that the variety did not prove to be as valuable as represented to him, and he there- 

 fore dropped it. I first grew the variety in 1886, and it seems to possess little value. 

 The variety has never become prominent. 



8. Never Fail {Rubus Canadensis var invisus). — I know this only from a specimen 

 and notes sent me by F. L. Wright, Plainfield, Mich., who obtained it from some per- 

 son in central Indiana. He says: " It never fails to produce an abundance of wood, 

 but always fails to produce fruit. I never had a perfect berry." It is said to have 

 originated in central Ohio. 



9. Fairfax (Rubus trivialis?). — I first heard of this variety from E. S. Carman, 

 editor of the Rural New Yorker. He tells me that he received it from the introducer 

 in the spring of 1884, but it was valueless with him. It was sent out by C. A. Uber of 

 Fairfax county, Virginia, now of Virginia Beach, Va. Mr. Uber writes as follows: '' I 

 found it growing wild in Fairfax county, Va., on a hillside of a stony, unproductive 

 field. I watched it carefully two Beasons and it was a very large, fine-flavored berry 

 growing on a vigorous but not rampant vine.- As it seemed so desirable in every respect, 

 I carefully removed all other vines from its vicinity during the second year and rooted 

 plants from it which I planted in very rich, rather moist, but by no means wet soil; 

 and such vines you never saw, but the berries did not seem to have time to grow! 

 Instead of a perfect collection of juicy drupes there were but few and they not of the 

 best, although the vines were contiguous to my experimental patch of 14 varieties 

 of blackberry and pollen should not have been lacking. I sent some also to a friend in 

 Texas and one in Missouri, and I believe one in Ohio, but it did not in either case prove 

 worthy of cultivation." 



10. Manatee (Rubus trivialis). — This variety was introduced by Reasoner Brothers, 

 Manatee, Florida, in 1889. Their catalogue for 1890 speaks of it as follows: " Rubus 

 trivialis. Southern Dewberries. We have an excellent strain superior for this climate 

 to Lucretia, which we have named ' Manatee.' In cultivation this produces fruit at the 

 rate of two hundred and fifty bushels per acre. As it ripens during April it is valuable 

 for shipping, which it stands well." Reasoner Bros, write as follows concerning it: 

 " We are growing the Rubus trivialis as well as all of our neighbors, who do not have 

 plenty of wild fruiting vines, and consider it as good as any blackberry or better. No 

 other dewberry does well here." And again: " There are no dewberries of value here 

 in this warm climate except this variety; we have tried several sorts but they all die 

 lingering deaths. Lucretia held out the longest, and bore a few berries but they proved 

 very sour and watery, unlike what they should have been. This Manatee is only a 

 selected strain of the common Rubus trivialis.^ 



I once grew the Manatee but it was killed the first Winter. J. E. Cutter of River- 

 side, California, says that the variety succeeds with him. 



11. Bauer (Rubus trivialis). — The first published record of this was made in the 

 American Garden last February (p. 84), in a brief note from C. E. Hunn, horticulturist 

 of the New York experiment station at Geneva. He had not fruited it. This variety 

 came from Bauer's nursery, Judsonia, Arkansas. Mr. Bauer writes as follows: " The 

 dewberry, we fear, has the grave fault of being unproductive, perhaps because of 

 insufficient pollen. Its cane growth and vigorous appearance are marvelous. The fruit 

 is fine. We are not introducing it, but only gave some away (last year) as premiums on 

 plant orders." 



