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in need of a large white cling peach of the same 

 quality and texture and as distinctive white in 

 flesh as the Heath cling, that will ripen at a 

 different time in the season, and that he will be 

 pleased to correspond with any person having 

 knowledge of such a variety." 



Defective Raspberries. — "Maryland" asks: 

 "Are there varieties of the raspberry that are 

 exclusively staminate or pistillate? If not, why 

 should the bushes, from one of which I enclose 

 a twig, always fail to perfect fruit?" 



[The pistils are very often defective in the 

 raspberry. Perhaps the stamens sometimes are, 

 but if so this has not been noticed. We are glad 

 that our correspondent has called attention to 

 this, as it is often overlooked in the character- 

 istics of a good raspberry. One that has always 

 its flowers perfect is to be preferred to one with 

 a tendency to unisexuality. — Ed. G. M.] 



Campbell's Triumph Grape. — "T. V. M.," 

 Denison, Texas, writes : "I mail you to-day a 

 cluster of Triumph (Campbell's) grape as it 

 grows here with ordinary vineyard culture. The 

 vine is as vigorous and productive as Concord. 

 By the side ot Irving, Lady Washington, Duch- 

 esse and other choice kinds fruiting in my vine- 

 yard this year, it is far ahead in every desirable 

 point, except in toughness of skin, as compared 

 with Duchesse, which will render the latter a 

 better shipper. Though I have sent the Triumph 

 in one-tliird bushel boxes, wrapped in paper, 

 over 1 200 miles by rail, arriving in fine condi- 

 tion. While so much is being said of Pockling- 

 ton and others, are we not possessed of a much 

 greater treasure (at least for the region where 

 Catawba will ripen, as Triumph ripens with it.) 

 in this grape which is making such an astonish- 

 ing success here for six or seven years in suc- 

 cession. As I have not yet fruited Pocklingt -m 

 here (expect to next season), would be pleased 

 to know your opinion as to comparative merits 

 of the fruit of the two, you having seen and 

 tested both. Please answer, if agreeable, through 

 the Gardener's Monthly. Now as this grape 

 has been before the public for a number of years, 

 reports from various sections, where it is being 

 fruited, would be generally interesting." 



[So many new fruits come to an editor's table, 

 and most of them so very good, that it seems too 

 bad not to give them high praise. But it is not 

 safe to forget that there are already a large num- 

 ber of first-class varieties before the public, and 

 the proper question before an editor should be, 



not whether the variety submitted is first-class 

 or not, but whether it is judicious to add an- 

 other to the list already thought too long. Even 

 with this rod before the introducer of a new 

 grape, he will surely be justified in presenting 

 this one. It belongs to the class known as white 

 grapes. The fruit is not amber, bat of a clear 

 green. The berries are larger than Concords are 

 usually here, and the bunch weighed thirteen 

 ounces and measured seven inches from where 

 the shoulder branched to the stem of the bunch. 

 The berries were very juicy and the juice pecu- 

 liarly refreshing. 



So far as can be judged from a single bunch it 

 must be concluded at least that there is room 

 for it in the lists. 



It was packed in cork dust and reached Ger- 

 mantown on the 3d of August, five days coming 

 1,200 miles, and was as fresh as when taken from 

 the vine.— Ed. G. M.] 



Prolific Raspberries.— A correspondent sug- 

 gests that when a raspberry is spoken of as "an 

 abundant bearer," it simply means that "there 

 are more berries ripen together than usual." 

 He says that " there are never more than ten 

 flowers on a raspberry branch, and sometimes 

 they ripen nearly altogether, and are over in a 

 few days. In other varieties they ripen in suc- 

 cession over a period of about ten days, and this 

 is all there is in it." We cannot say now that 

 the raspberry season is over, whether this is the 

 case or not ; but even if there are but ten flow- 

 ers, surely some are often abortive. 



Russian Mulberry, et cetera. — S. Lincoln, 

 Nebraska, sends us the following extract from 

 some Western publication, and asks if it is a 

 " humbug :" '' The Russian mulberry, Russian 

 olive, Russian thornless acacia, were brought to 

 this country from the steppes of Russia, latitude 

 49°, by the Mennonites. The mulberry and olive 

 were the favorite timber and fuel-producing 

 trees of that; country, and after eight years' trial 

 prove equally as valuable upon the prairies of 

 the West. The mulberry, as near as we can 

 learn, is a cross between the Morus nigra, or 

 black mulberry of Persia, and the Morus Tartar- 

 aca, a native Russian variety. The tree is a very 

 rapid grower and grows to be very large, often 

 reaching the height of fifty feet, and from three 

 to five feet in diameter, and is perfectly hardy. 

 The Russian olive is a thorny tree which attains 

 the height of forty feet. The leaves are a bright 

 silver color and are formed ' Hke the willow. 



