THE STRA WBERR Y RASPBERR V. 



Thanksgiving time, remains to be seen. 

 It is claimed that the bush, which grows 

 some four feet high and is perennial, 

 will hold its fruit well after frost. 



It is perhaps not exactly correct to 

 class the 



ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHERRY 



as a "small fruit," since it belongs, 

 botanically, to the plum family — but a 

 small fruit it is, in fact, and the public 

 has been already put on notice that this 

 was not intended as a scientific but a 

 popular paper. 



The plum generally known as the 

 " Rocky Mountain Cherry,'' is the 

 Pru}ius pumt'la, which grows, perhaps, 

 four or five feet high and bears a small, 

 oval, tasteless and worthless fruit. But 

 this is not the Rocky Mountain Cherry 

 that I mean. I refer to its sister, the 

 Pntmts Besseyi of Bailey, which is of 

 much dwarfer, scrubbier habit, seldom 

 reaching three feet in height, and send- 

 ing out numerous laterals as long as its 

 main stem. In fact, as my foreman. 



Mr. Jones, sententiously remarked, "it 

 tries its best to wallow all over the 

 ground ! " Its leaves are larger, rounder 

 and thicker than those of the P. pumila. 



As for fruit, it is simply one mass of 

 it, clustering thickly around the stem 

 and laterals. I honestly believe a three- 

 year-old bush will bear a gallon. The 

 size and shape is that of a good sized 

 Bigarreau cherry — larger than a Morello 

 — color being black and flavor dis- 

 tinctly that of a cherry, with a similar 

 pit. It contains, however, both dis- 

 tinctiveness of acid and sugar, although 

 possessing but little acid, and is quite 

 agreeable eaten off the bush. 



It grows anywhere and yields, as I 

 have previously stated, phenomenally. 

 Up to this season I should have recom- 

 mended it without reservation ; but the 

 present year its blossoms were caught 

 by a late frost — an accident I have 

 never before known to happen to it, as 

 it does not usually bloom prematurely. 

 — Georgia Experiment Station Report. 



THE STRAWBERRY 



R. A. E. SHERRINGTON, 

 experimenter in Huron 

 County, sends us samples 

 of the Strawberry raspberry 

 as fruited on his grounds, and from one 

 of them we have taken a photograph 

 which gives a truthful representation of 

 its size and appearance. It is a singular 

 fruit, quite interesting as a novelty, but 

 in our opinion inferior to either of the 

 fruits of which it is a supposed hybrid. 

 Its property of continued bearing 

 throughout the season, and the sweet- 

 ness of its bloom, make it desirable for 

 the amateur's garden, but for profit it 

 would be of no value. The plant is a 

 herbaceous hardy perennial, like the 

 peony, and probably not in any way 

 related to the strawberry. Mr. Sher- 



414 



RASPBERRY. 



rington's experience with this berry 

 seems to be more favorable than that at 

 the Georgia Experiment Station, given 

 on page 413. 



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