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VOL. YI.] 



JANUARY, 1883. 



[No. 1. 



THE HAE^SELL EASPBERRT. 



The coloured illustration which 

 ■. loriis tliis tirst number of the new 

 yciir has been presented to our readers 

 by Mr. J. T. Lovett, who is the intro- 

 ducer of this new fruit. It is quite 

 impossible for the Editor to give any 

 information concerning this new as- 

 pirant for public favour from personal 

 acquaintance with the plants or the 

 fruit, not yet having seen either. The 

 following .history and description is 

 gathered from what Mr. Lovett pub- 

 lishes concerning this raspberry : 



Its History. — About eight years 

 ago it was noticed growing among 

 weeds and grass in a very unfavorable 

 spot, where a raspberry not possessed 

 of great constitutional vigor would have 

 perished. After having been eaten down 

 by a cow and barely escaped being dug 

 \x\) when the ground was cleared of 

 rubbish, a branch struggled up into 

 < lay light sufficiently to bear fruit, which 

 was so fine as to attract tlie attention 

 of the owner, the late J. S. Hansel 1, 

 who was an eminently successful fruit 

 grower. He removed the plant to a 

 moi-e favorable location, and here its 

 performance was so exceedingly fine 

 that he set about increasing his stock 

 of it as rapidly as possible, so that at 



the time of his death he had ten acres 

 of it growing. 



Description. — It ripens very early, 

 full}'^ ten days in advance of the Brandy- 

 wine growing beside it with the same 

 treatment. It also invariably ripens 

 its entire crop in a short space of time, 

 about three weeks, and is wholly gone 

 when the Cuthbert is at its height. 

 The beriy is medium to large, averagirig 

 larger than Brandywine and nearly sis 

 large as Cuthbert ; the color is of the 

 brightest crimson, and the firmness 

 equalling that best of all shipping red 

 raspberries, Brandywine. The quality 

 is best^ being notably rich and refresh- 

 ing, and the odor delightfully agreeable. 

 The canes are vigorous, productive and 

 entirely hardy, having never been in- 

 jured either by the heat of summer or 

 cold of winter, and is believed by Mr. 

 Lovett to be as hardy as the iron-clad 

 Turner. It has been ft-uited on a liberal 

 scale on the Hansell place and sent to 

 market, commanding a high price on 

 account of its earliness and quality, and 

 proved to be pecuniarily so profitable 

 that with the sole object of fruit in 

 view, the owner has extended his plan- 

 tation of it to its present extent of more 

 than ten acres. Such is Mr. Lovett's 



