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is of the largest size, conical in form, 

 quite firm, of excellent flavor ; a light 

 brilliant" crimson when fii-st ripe, be- 

 coming a darker crimson, or cherry 

 color, when over-ripe. We consider 

 this a slight demerit, for in a lar^ 

 plantation a portion of the fruit will 

 necessarily be over ripe when gathered, 

 and a box with a portion of the fruit 

 cherry-colored, will not look so attrac- 

 tive as if all were of a light crim- 

 son, or bright scarlet. With this de- 

 mei'it, however, we think the Ciithbert 

 now stands at the head of the list of 

 profitable red raspberries. If any 

 variety can successfully dispute its pre- 

 eminence, it is the Brandywine, which 

 can not be dispensed with, on account 

 of its earlier season. As it presents 

 itself to us. Highland Hardy, Brandy- 

 wine, and Cuthbert, are the three | 

 desirable varieties of red raspberries 

 for a succession through the season. 



BLACK -CAPS. 



Gregg. — The Gregg as is now gener- 

 ally well known, is a firm dry berry, 

 yielding the largest percentage of dried 

 fruit in the evaporator. As a table 

 fruit we should prefer the Mammoth 

 Cluster. 



BLACKBERRIES. 



Agawam. — This is in some respects 

 the best market blackberry cultivated. 

 While it is a hardy, vigorous grower, 

 and very productive, the fruit is large 

 and sweet all the way through. It is 

 a little inferior in size to Ijawton and 

 Kittatinny, and perhaps not as high 

 flavored as those varieties, when at 

 their best, but, as picked for market, it 

 is wholly exempt from that sour core 

 so well known in the Ijawton, and is 

 soft and sweet all the way through. 



The Ancient Briton is a very vigor- 

 ous, hardy, prolific cano, and the fruit 

 is nearly the size of A^wam. We 

 think there is a little more of the wild 

 blackberry flavor in it than in any 

 other of the cultivated sorts. 



Siiyier is now pretty well known. 

 In productiveness, it really excelled any 

 other, the loads of fruit on the canes 

 were just marvellous, and worth walk- 

 ing a gieat way to behold. — American 

 Rural Home. 



THE "JAMES VICK" STRAWBERRY. 



A few Rochester horticulturists were 

 invited to see the new strawberry James 

 Vick in bearing. W. C. Barry, late 

 President of the Nurseryman's Asso- 

 ciation ; P. C. Reynolds, long Secretary 

 of Western New York Horticultural 

 Society, and horticultural editor of the 

 American Rural Home ; the Vick Bro- 

 thers, representing the firm of James 

 Vick ; John Charlton and Josiah Salter. 



They were first shown rows of the 

 new strawberry from plants set late the 

 previous fall, growing in the same bed 

 with Manchester and Bidwell. The 

 new berry showed twice the fruit of 

 either Bidwell or Manchester, and more 

 vigor of plant. The party wei-e next 

 shown a plat of about one-fourth acre, 

 not manured for many years, common 

 farm soil in the midst of a field of 

 twenty acres of fruit, on which the new 

 strawberry had been permitted to form 

 wide and thick matted rows for the 

 purpose of multiplying plants, from the 

 whole of which plants had been dug a 

 few months previous, tearing and loosen- 

 ing the roots of those remaining. The 

 soil was packed hard and very weedy, 

 showing evidence of neglect, yet under 

 such adverse circumstances, which would 

 lead one to expect no fruit worth gather- 

 ing, the ])lants were thickly studded, 

 an<l the rows fairly ablaze with large, 

 beautifully and evenly colored, firm and 

 shajK^ly berries of 8ui)erior quality. 

 From this bed was subsequently picked 

 the largest yield of fruit ever gathered 

 from any variety on this fruit farm. 

 Mr. W. C. Barry said that of all the 

 new strawberries he had tested, this 



