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B1.ACKRERIUKS. — Wo find tlie following iu the proceedings of a lato meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Institute Farmers' Club, as rei)orted in the Agricaltor: 



"TiiK Nkw RiiciiELLE Blackberry. — ^Tlio Beerftary rciniiiJed tho Chair that Mr. Lawtox, of 

 New Kochelk', Westchester Co., was present, and that he was the gentleman who exhibited the 

 renwrkiible stalk of a blackberry, wliich was then on the table ; whereupon, the Chair requested 

 Mr. Lawtox to give the Club some information regarding this remarkable new variety of fruit. 



"Mr. Lawton stated that one of his neighbors discovered, some six or eight years ago, a bunch 

 of blackberry vines by the side of the road, of difterent quality from the common high blackber- 

 ries, and so much superior that he wa? induced to transfer them to his garden. From this small 

 becinnin" thev have been propagated as much as po.<sible. Mr. Lawton first obtained them in 

 1848 ; it is his intention to set ten acres as soon as he can get the plants. lie stated that the 

 stalk exhibited had been headed back, so that it resembled a bush about four and a half feet high, 

 with a spreading head, which he presumed from his knowledge of the general yield, had borne a 

 gallon of fruit. 



"The character of thc3« berries is very unlike the fruit of the common liigli Idackbcrry vines, 

 which is long and full of seeds, while the new variety is nearly rouml, very pulpy, the pipe being 

 laro^e. in which the seed are entirely hid from view. He stated that he had measured many ber- 

 ries that were three inches round ; that the general size and shaj^e were as near like HovEv'd 

 seedlinw strawberries, as anything he crmld compare them to. The flavor of the fruit is sweet 

 and rich, to a remarkable degree, and vines long bearing. His first crop ripened July 28th, and 

 continued till the second week of September. The next, August 4th, and continued four weeks. 

 Last summer, owing to the great drouth, they only continued about three weeks in full bearing. 

 The y'lacz grow almost equally as well in shade as in open ground; and if an opportunity is 

 given, will climb twenty feet into a tree. 



" Mr. Lawtox sold Ins berries last summer to a New York dealer for ten cents a basket — equal 

 to about twenty-five cents a quart — the buyer picking them himself. It is the opinion of Mr. 

 Lawtox, that this is an entirely new variety of the blackberry ; and besides the greater value of 

 the fruit, they bear garden culture much better than the other, or common variety. The demand 

 for new plants is greater than can be supplied at present moderate rates — tho price now being 

 fifty cents." 



Glover's Artificial Fnrixs. — ^In giving an account of the Fair of the Metropolitan 

 Institute, in AYasliington, the Genesee Farmer iliw?, speaks of the exhibition of Mr. Glovek: 



" In the Fruit line, nothing coidd well exceed in beauty and truthfulness Mr. T. Glover's arti. 

 ficiul fruits, of almost every kind grown in the Northern States. His dls]day of pears, apples, 

 ])lnms, cherries, and strawberries, deserves especial commendation. Mr. G. resides at Fishkill, X. 

 Y., and is constantly adding to his collection, which we hope to see purchased and placed in 

 some agricultural museum to which the public may have constant access for study and improve- 

 ment. The insects injurious to fruit trees and fruits, are true to the life; and the plan is equally 

 applicable to all the larger insects that attack the plants and animals owned by man." 



Notices of BooH Piimp^Ifts, ^t. 



CinsMicAL Field Lectttees fob Agbicitltukists. By Dr. JuLirs Adolphus Stockiiakdt, Professor in the Koyal 

 Academy at Tharand. Translated from the German. Edited, witii Notes, by Jamis E. TESCiiEiiAcnEE. Cam- 

 bridge: John Baetlett. 1S53. 



There is so much that is technical, speculative, and visionary in most of the writings on 

 Chemistry of Agriclture that tlie title of " Chemical Lectures" will be somewhat unin- 

 viting to plain, practical cultivators ; bnt we can assure them that this is not a book of 



