20 THE CANADIAN HORTICULTITKIST. 



BAETLE'S AMEEICAN DEWBEERY. 



BY B. GOTT, AEKONA, 



The Editor of the Canadian Hoeticulturist desires a note of my 

 experience with some fruit, — 



* ' As apple, pear, or cherry, 

 Or peach, or grape, or berry. " 



Now it is a somewhat difficult task to choose, even from this string of 

 fruitful subjects, a topic that may be at once interesting and instructive 

 to the many ripe readers of that very excellent magazine. However, 

 having thought the matter over to some extent, and having spent some 

 considerable amount of wonderment as to what I could contribute that 

 might be of semce to the cause, I have at length stumbled upon a 

 short note respecting the American Dewberry, advertised and styled 

 Bartle's American Dewberry. - 



Some two or three years ago, A. M. Purdy, of Rochester, N. Y., in 

 his nice little monthly, entitled The Fruit Recorder, advertised and 

 lauded this wonderful berry quite freely, and even promised to send 

 a plant as a premium to any one renewing their subscription to the 

 Recorder. Now my curiosity was pretty well aroused. WTiat on 

 earth could this wonderful berry be ? For although it was pretty fully 

 described and largely pictured out, yet good care was taken not to tell 

 exactly what it was; you know this is sometimes done. Well, 

 Webster says of it, that it is the fruit of a species of briar or bramble, 

 the low-vined blackberry that creeps along the ground, of the genus 

 Eubus. Wood, in his " Class Book of Botany" very largely and fully 

 describes two species of Dewberry, under the genus Eubus, viz: E, 

 Canadensis and E. Trivialis, or Northern and Southern Dewberry, but 

 I was ignorant of the difference. Well, at length I sent for a couple 

 of roots true to name, the veritable Dewberry about which so much 

 talk was made, and in due course of time they came in a snug little 

 parcel by mail, and perfectly dried, like small pieces of lifeless sticks. 

 However I was not discouraged, I had faith, I believed there was 

 luscious fruit in them, so I immediately immersed them in water, (in 

 good Canadian water, over head and ears,) for a day or two, and then 

 very carefully planted them out in a nice cool moist place, to give 

 them all the good chances to revive, and they grew ! The second year, 

 to my utter astonishment, they ran (not creeping, as Webster has it,) 



