NOTES ON RASPBERRIES. 



Bv George W. Campbell, Debwaro, Ohio. 



" De gustibiis non est dispntand/nii" I find, may be not less truly 

 affirmed in reference to raspberries than to the mode in which their 

 character and value may be regarded and treated upon by different in- 

 dividuals. 



I am induced to make this remark by noticing in the St. Louis 

 " Rural World," of September 26, an article signed " Ozark," com- 

 menting upon the " Notes on Raspberries " in the September number of 

 your joui'nal. The tone of this article seemed to me so unjust, in view 

 of the fact that you expressly stated your recomendations of varieties to 

 be made with reference to Boston market, and was withal so entirely 

 wanting in the courtesy due from one journal, or one writer, towards 

 another, I could not help feeling surprised that it ever found place in 

 any respectable paper. I do not propose finlher to remark upon this ex- 

 traordinary production. I am, however, inclined to think there is really 



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