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Prunus maritima, the dwarf sea-side plum, is doing well on stocks of the 

 wild plum (P. Americana.) 



Prunus simoni, from China, is thrifty on the wild choke cherry (P. Virgin- 

 iana) ; it is also growing on peach. On common cherry it did not take. 

 Scions of one and two-year-old wood were used. Both sorts grew. 



Prunus Virginiana, choke cherry, failed to grow on both peach and common 

 cherry. 



Prunus serotina, the wild black cherry, failed to grow on cherry. 



Chickasaws upon choke cherry failed to grow.* 



A Pond's Seedling plum started upon the wild black cherry, but the stock 

 died. 



Pond's Seedling and others are doing well on Prunus Americana stocks. 

 Scions of Pond's Seedling have grown to exceed the stock in diameter. One 

 has already grown five feet high. 



Apples upon the common wild choke berry or " nanny berry " (Pi/rus arbuti- 

 folia) are growing nicely, though slowly. 



Birket pears are starting off nicely on this same choke berry. 



Two-thirds of the pears crown-grafted and root-grafted on wild thorns failed 

 to grow. 



Most pears start well on apple roots. 



A number of Cor mis Florida scions were inserted upon Cor mis paniculata 

 stocks. The scions remained fresh, and appeared to be upon the point of 

 starting until July, when they all died. 



Apple roots upon which buds had started were inserted in limbs of an apple 

 tree. They are making a good though slender growth. 



The most remarkable grower of all our grafts is the Marianna plum. Scions 

 set last spring three feet high on Prunus Americana stocks have made a bushy 

 and stocky head three feet and more in diameter. This plum is a remarkably 

 clean and vigorous plant. Upon a very exposed slope it endured the severe 

 weather of last winter without the slightest injury. We have not yet fruited it. 



It is probable that many of the grafts which now promise well will not en- 

 dure long. 



Mr. E. W. Redman was next introduced by Prof. Bailey, who gave the fol- 

 lowing interesting paper on 



BOTANY OF THE RASPBERRY AND BLACKBERRY. 



My object in this essay is not to give an elaborate description of the rasp- 

 berry, blackberry and their varieties, with methods of culture, but merely a 

 brief history and description of the three species, Rubus idmis. the European 

 red; Rubus strigosus, our common wild red, and Rubus occidentalis, our wild 

 blackcap, together with the two species, Riious villosus and Canadensis, or 

 our common blackberry and dewberry ; and in connection with this some of 

 the characteristic differences between these species. 



As the Rubus idieus, or European red raspberry, is the veteran among these 

 berries in cultivation, we will do well to consider it first. It is stated that the 

 Greeks first traced this species to Mount Ida, where they distinguished the 

 raspberry bramble by the term " Idaea," hence our modern species " Rubus 

 idceus" Rubus being classed under the botanist's term Rosacea. Our term 

 raspberry from the Italian " Rasp " is probably from the rasping roughness 

 of prickly wood. The term "rasps" is still used in Scotland. Mr. A. S. 



