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OUR PLANT DISTRIBUTIONS FOR 1900. 



The Cumberland Black Raspberry. 



^^N the I ith of July, we received a basket 

 of fine branches of the Cumberland 

 Raspberry from Mr. W. E. Welling- 

 ton, grown at Fonthill. Nearly all the berries 

 on each branch were fully ripe, and as Gregg" 

 was not yet in the market we were impressed 

 with the earliness of the variety, as well as 

 its evident productiveness. We accordingly 

 took a photograph of it which forms the 

 frontispiece of this number, and have decided 

 to place it on our spring plant distribution 

 list for 1 90 1. The berries are of fine size 

 and good flavor, and these characteristics 

 combined with their earliness and productive- 

 ness make the Cumberland a most promising 

 commercial variety. This year it began to 

 ripen at Fonthill about the 5th of July. The 

 plant is thought to be a seedling of Gregg, 

 with a dash of blackberry blood in it. It orig- 

 inated nine years ago with David Miller, of 

 Maryland, and is thought to be the most 

 profitable and deservable market variety yet 

 known. If we are to believe all the intro- 

 ducers say of it, it is the "Business Berry," 

 having immense size, firmness and great 



productiveness and wonderful hardiness, en- 

 during without injury, we are told, 16° below 

 zero, (Fahr). In size it is said to be "simply 

 enormous," the berries often reaching /g of 

 an inch in diameter; those photographs were 

 ^ of an inch in diameter, but the dry season 

 would account for their being a little below 

 size. Now, if the berry equals half what its 

 introducers say of it, surely it is well worth 

 introducing to Canadian Fruit Growers. 



Spir.^a, Anthony Waterer, 

 {S. Japonica Biimalda.) 



At the same time that the Cumberland 

 Raspberry came to hand, July nth, we 

 also received from Mr. Wellington a 

 basket of the new Spiraea, which is one 

 of the most desirable of the newly in- 

 troduced shrubs for the lawn. He writes, 

 " They are quite a sight in the Nur- 

 sery rows, and they continue blooming till 

 frost comes." The R. N. Y. says of it, 

 "The most satisfactory Spiraea in existence ; 

 a constant bloomer. The plant is of low 

 growth, the umbels a bright pink color. A 

 profuse bloomer." 



