1893 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



791 



great lot of manure plowed under, or something 

 of that sort. The berries were growing on 

 ordinary farming land, a little inclined to be 

 sandy. A crop of potatoes was grown there 

 last year, and this year he has had potatoes 

 between the rows of raspberries. The astonish- 

 ing thing about this plant is its wonderful ten- 

 dency to bear fruit. For instance, if you buy 

 one of the little plants, with perhaps two or 

 three inches of old wood attached to it. as soon 

 as it commences to grow in the spring a lot of 

 great berries will start on this little short 

 stump or cane. It is not best, however, to let 

 this little stump bear fruit. Pick the berries 

 off or it will overtask the new root; but when 

 several little shoots of new wood come up, you 

 may let them indulge their propensity and bear 

 fruit. Why. one would almost think the plants 

 were strawberries instead of raspberries, for 

 the clusters ar^^ sticking right up out of the dry 

 soil but a little higher than strawberries ordi- 

 narily grow. I examined the ground all over 

 the patch, and it certainly is not nearly as good 

 or rich as my creek-bottom ground where I 

 grow strawberries and vegetables. He said he 

 had not put on any manure this year because it 

 would be pretty sure to make scabby potatoes. 



May be you think I am not posted in regard 

 to all the raspberries there are in the world. 

 Perhaps so; but if this raspberry grows and 

 bears fruit in every locality as it does on the 

 farm of friend Gault, it seems to me it is cer- 

 tainly something in advance of any thing we 

 have on the face of the earth in the way of 

 small fruits and berries. Please consider that 

 it bears a crop of fruit just about the time that 

 ordinary raspberries do. This crop is. of course, 

 on the old canes. Just as soon as this first crop 

 is gone, a crop is coming forward on the new 

 canes of the present season's growth. And 

 then it just keeps bearing as if the plants had 

 gone crazy on the single idea of bearing fruit. 

 There had been a heavy frost the night before 

 1 was there, and a good many of the berries 

 ■ had been frozen so as to make them soft. Quite 

 a few had dropped on the ground; but the 

 frost had not spoiled them for my taste. I ate 

 berries until my mouth was red, and my fingers 

 so stained that I was almost ashamed to go in 

 to the dinner-table. Mrs. Root would, perhaps, 

 toll you that that ride of seven miles over good 

 roads in 4.5 minutes had unfitted me from being 

 a fair and impartial judge of berries; and, by 

 the way, notwithstanding the great lot of 

 berries I ate, didn't I do justice to that excel- 

 lent dinner? late quite a spell after the rest 

 were through; but Mrs. Gault apologized for 

 me by saying that I talked so much during 

 dinnertime I didn't have half a chance, as the 

 rest did. We had stewed chicken and cream 

 biscuits dipped in the broth; and maple molas- 

 ses, beautiful potatoes, and, finally, grape pie. 

 1 thought it was rasp/>errj/ pie; but whatever 

 it was, it was of a kind to make a wheelman's 

 heart glad. We had so much talking to do in 

 regard to the berries and potatoes (friend Gault 

 is a grower of new varieties of potatoes as well 

 as berries) that I came pretty near being too 

 late for my train. However, by making the 

 seven miles in 40 minutes, instead of 4.5, I reach- 

 •ed home safely a little after 3 o'clock in the 

 afternoon. 



The question now comes, " How shall the 

 readers of (tLeanings get some of these new 

 berries to try ? " Well, friend Gault is trying 

 to get some nurseryman or fruit-grower to take 

 hold of his discovery. If he does not do that, 

 he will probably offer them for sale in the 

 spring. Perhaps it may save correspondence 

 by saying here that he has at present decided 

 on 50 cts. for each plant, or $5.00 per dozen; and 

 at present he prefers not to tell of his discovery 



in the way of propagating the plants, unless it 

 is to those who purchase <iuite a number of 

 them. If it were I, I think I would tell every- 

 body just how it is done; but, of course, it is 

 his privilege to do as he likes with it. The 

 plant is in many respects like the Everbearing 

 raspberry, mentioned in Gleanings a year or 

 so ago. Its immense size, however, and its tre- 

 mendous tendency to bear fruit, also the differ- 

 ent appearance of the foliages, marks it as a 

 different thing without question. I feel very 

 anxious to see what the plant will do on some 

 of my very richest ground for market-garden- 

 ing. The tendency to bear so continually, 

 stands in the way of any very rapid method of 

 propagation. I have asked friend Gault to give 

 us a brief statement in regard to it, and here is 

 what he says: 



Mr. Root : —You requested me to give you a few 

 items in reference to those raspberries. I expect to 

 name it " Tlie Gault," or " Gault's Perpetual." Tliis 

 berry was a stray secdlinf^- 1 found by the roadside, 

 not far from my place in Rufjgles, Ashland Co., O. 

 The vines are extremely liardy, and tlie fruit of 

 delicious flavor. As to size, tliey are immense, some 

 crown berries liaving' measured three inches in cir- 

 cumference. When I found the plant it was quite 

 small, and had but three clusters of berries on it. 

 The size of the fruit was that which attracted my 

 attention. Tt was a year later before I discovered 

 that it was a popefiia?; and during- the six years 

 since I discovei-ed it I have frequently been surpris 

 ed by new points of merit. 



The first crop, which ripens about eight days after 

 the Gregg, is very abundant, and will produce t)ne- 

 third more fruit to the same ground, and it contin- 

 ues in bearing for about three weeljs, by whicli time 

 the uew canes commence bearing, and continue till 

 checked by frost. This latter crop is not composed 

 of a few scattering beri-ies at tlie axils of the leaves, 

 but immense clusters - often numbering 100 berries 

 on a single cane— sometimes resembling a cluster 

 of grapes in form. The photo I left with you was 

 taken from the tip of a cluster which was not more 

 than an ordinarj' one, and was cut Aug. 31. 



Tobacco Column. 



CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH WE GIVE SMOKERS TO PERSONS WHO 

 STOP USING TOBACCO. 



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TOBACCO— THE USEKS OF IT ARE NOT THE ONLY 

 SUFFERERS. 



Why are sudden deaths so much more numer- 

 ous now than in former years? Because we 

 had no matches nor cigars until 1830. hence 

 smoking was more difficult, and confined to 

 persons sitting in their chimney-corners (light- 

 ing their pipes by the embers, which were never 

 allowed to go out), and the smoke ascended the 

 open flues; while now in tight-stove rooms all 

 of the inmates are obliged to breathe the poison; 

 so, even " if you let it alone '" it will not let you 

 alone. T. B. Terry tells us of a beautiful 

 home, surrounded by wealth and every evi- 

 dence of refinement, in which a lady lay dying. 

 Her medical attendant, who is a celebrated 

 physician, told him that, although this woman 

 was an idolized wife, yet her husband had 

 killed her; that he had become so literally 

 steeped in tobacco that the insensible perspira- 



