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THE GREGG RASPBERRY. 



In 1875, President Ohnier first saw the Gregg, at Indianapolis, Indiana. 

 He ^vas so favorably impressed he at once journeyed to Amara, Indiana, jvhere 

 Mr. J. H. Gregg, the originator, lived. Tiie Gregg Brothers were lawyers. 

 He was informed at the office that J. H. Gregg was at the farm, seven miles 

 away, and that a terribly rough and hilly road led to it. Nothing daunted, he 

 set forth and after mxich hardship reached the Gregg farm, and was soon trotted 

 out to see the original patch of Greggs, then ten years old, which would make 

 it sixteen years since it was discovered growing wild ; showing how long it takes 

 for a new variety of peculiar valuable characteristics to become well known. 

 The visitor must have been sadly shocked when his eye fell on the renowned Gregg 

 plantation, for I am advised that at the time of his visit the Aveeds were standing 

 in it higher than a man's head and so thick that the plants could scarcely be 

 found, and no cultivator had moved therein for years, but he chooses to be 

 silent on that point. The wild ravine in which the original raspberry was 

 planted by some wandering bird was shown. From this beginning all the 

 Gregg raspberries that now delight the fruit growers of the continent sprang. 

 Charles Downing says the Gregg is one of the largest, if not the largest of the 

 blackcap family, hardy, strong, and branching, flesh firm, ripening evenly, 

 making the picking season short. We have grown it for years, have many 

 acres planted and do not hesitate to pronounce it the largest of all blackcaps 

 and the most productive, excepting only the Tyler, which ripens nearly tliree 

 weeks earlier. The Gregg ripens all its berries in so short a space of time, and 

 is so firm, they may be left on the bushes until nearly all may be gathered at 

 one picking, which is a fact of the greatest importance. — Gree?i's Fruit Grower. 



THE CUTHBERT AT PORT HURON. 



The Cuthbert raspberry is recommended for its hardiness. About Ann 

 Arbor it has been raised for a number of years with no drawbacks on account 

 of tenderness; and now comes the following communication from I. H. But- 

 terfield of Port Huron. — Secretary Garfield: 



It may be of interest to state that the Cuthbert raspberry canes near here 

 and two miles from the lake kept green to the tips through last winter. Low- 

 est temperature 14° below zero. — /. H. B. 



THE TURNER RASPBERRY. 



I will give you some facts from a ten years' experience in growing the Tur- 

 ner for market. It has been grown here for about that time, and by a large 

 number of producers, most of the crop each year being marketed in Chicago, 

 325 miles distant by rail. The quantity shipped has amounted some days to 

 25,000 boxes (pints) ; and that the planting constantly increased for years, is 

 good evidence that this berry bears transportation well enough to sell at remun- 

 erative prices. 



There are many instances of much longer transportation. I have myself 

 repeatedly sent it to New Orleans, GOO miles, and to St. Paul, 800 miles, and 



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