290 Missouri State Horticultural Society. 



Dr. Sturtevant suggests it as an interesting subject of inquiry, 

 " whether the varieties within an agricultural species have as dis- 

 tinct habits in their root formation within the soil as they display 

 in their visible formation out of it;" and incidentally mentions that 

 a cauliflower had, August 13, roots which were traced to a depth 

 of two and a half to three feet, and horizontally about two and a 

 half feet, and " the fibrous roots were less numerous in the upper 

 than in the lower layers of soil." Hence for this crop the soil 

 should be rich low down, as well as at the surface for tlie especial 

 use of the plants when young. — N. Y. Tribune. 



SUCCESSION IN STKAWBEKRIES. 



The American Garden gives the following results of the time 

 of ripening on the grounds of Dr. Hexamer, the editor," extending 

 from June 6th to 18th : June 6th, Crystal City ; 7th, Crescent, 

 Black Defiance ; 8th, Ducliess, Downer ; 9th, Wilson ; 10th, 

 Miner, Lennig's White ; 11th, Cumberland, Green Prolific, Hart^s 

 Minnesota, Jucunda, Cinderella, Seth Boyden, Hervey Davis, Red 

 Jacket ; 13th, Bid well, Warren, Longfellow, Capt. Jack, Man- 

 chester, James Vick, Golden Defiance, Great American, President 

 Lincoln, Seneca Queen, Prince, Daniel Boone, Kentucky, Col. 

 Cheney, Glendale ; 15th, Jersey Queen, Finch, Mrs. Garfield, At- 

 lantic, Mount Vernon ; 18th, Marvin. 



THE MARLBORO RASPBERRY. 



Your correspondent, A. B. C. (why not give his real name ?) 

 in the Rural New Yorker, of July 19, page 463, states that he 

 saw "the Marlboro Easpberry in all its glory, or at least all the 

 glory it will ever attain in Xew Jersey. It was on the best of soil 

 and given the best possible treatment, but the canes were faltering, 

 and would not bring out their first crop," etc., etc., "and my firm 

 conviction is," continues this anonymous assailant, " from what 1 

 have seen of the Marlboro, it will not do for New Jersey and loca- 

 tions southward. I can see nothing in it but Idaeus blood." 



Having examined the Marlboro raspberry carefully, I think 

 otherwise, and I doubt if it has very much, if any, Idsus or for- 

 eign blood m it (except in its mature leaves) ; but I believe it to be 

 an improved seedling of the American red (rubus strigosus), or it 

 may be the result of a succession of improvements or crosses, etc. 

 The growth, and habit of throwing up numerous sprouts or 

 suckers : the strong, vigorous, upright canes, branching a little 

 toward the top, nearly smooth, with a few short, scattering spines ; 

 the peculiar reddish color of the young leaves at the ends of the 



