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rimental stations can generally be had by asking for them, and there 
are many papers published that contain matter invaluable to the 
horticulturist. It is also the season when most of the horticultural 
societies hold their annual meetings. Every progressive horticul- 
turist and farmer should be a member of one or more societies. 
There is room in the Minnesota society for twenty thousand mem- 
bers, and the benefits they would receive by being members would 
be ten times more valuable than the cost. This month is a good 
time to join. Most of the farmers’ institutes are held in winter, and 
every one who possibly can should attend them. Then ask for it, 
and more attention will be given in them to instruction on horticul- 
ture. Winter is also a good time for starting horticultural clubs, 
libraries, reading rooms, etc. A few back horticultural reports 
make a good nucleus for the library and reading room. Try it on 
this winter! And that all may enjoy a merry Christmas and happy 
New Year is the sincere wish of the writer. 
A BLACKBERRY-RASPBERRY CROSS. 
The Loganberry originated several years ago in the garden of 
Judge J. H. Logan, of Santa Cruz, from self-grown seeds of the 
Auginbaugh, springing up in the moist, warm soil of that sheltered 
district. The other parent is supposed to be a raspberry of the Red 
Antwerp type. Raspberries of several sorts grew alongside, and, 
in fact, intermingled. The Loganberry shows so clearly the ming- 
ling of both types that no horticulturist who studies the fruit has 
doubted that it is a true hybrid of the Auginbaugh blackberry with 
some large, red, European raspberry. The result is a very sturdy 
plant of rambling or trailing growth, needing support to be at its 
best, but even in this dry climate it is a vine of unusual substance 
and healthfulness, resembling the Auginbaugh blackberry, but 
really distinguished from it in the field. The berry is large and 
solid, resembling the Auginbaugh in shape and retaining its delic- 
ious, wild flavor; it is dark red to purple when fully ripe, and shows 
its texture in the easy slipping from the core, and partly in flavor 
the raspberry parentage. 
Tests made in different soils and in some very dry situations have 
shown, so far, that the Loganberry will grow and beara fair amount 
of fruit in localities where the gooseberry,currant and high-bush var- 
ieties of blackberries and dewberries have entirely failed. As I have 
said, plants of Rubus ursinus are sometimes found thriving very 
well on dry hillsides, with scrub oak and chaparral, but seldom bear 
fruit to any extent in such arid places. In other words, some indi- 
viduals of this variable species of Rubus grow in very hot, arid and 
barren places, and the original Auginbaugh, though found on a 
sandy peninsula, near the bay, instead of on a hillside, seems to 
have had the power to transmit this resistant quality, together with 
an increased productiveness. The Loganberry is now grown for 
market, and the results are said to be gratifying, both in regard to 
price and yield._Garden and Forest. 
