2 1 8 Fruits and Fruit- Trees. 



to any yet possessed on either side of the Atlantic may 

 in course of time be brought into existence by skilful 

 crossing of the best that grow wild in their respective 

 countries. In New Jersey the native Blackberry has for 

 many years been grown for market on a very extensive 

 scale. In 1878 the crop yielded by the single township 

 of Vineland, near Delaware Bay, was not much short 

 of sixteen thousand bushels, with the market value of 

 ;6,2oo. In Burlington county an acre of ground has 

 yielded a hundred and fifty bushels, the fruit selling for 

 120. Indifferent as we are in England to the black- 

 berry, these figures may to many people be incredible, 

 but the facts remain, and the returns appear to augment 

 every season. One of the finest sorts is the Kittatinny, so 

 named from its native region, the Kittatinny mountains 

 in New Jersey. Unfortunately it would seem not to 

 have quite enough of the ironclad about it to stand the 

 severest winters. But in reference to this we have only 

 to remember what has resulted from the crossing of the 

 comparatively tender Indian Rhododendron arboreum with 

 the almost impregnable Ponticum of Asia Minor. The 

 Rubus laciniatus, or American cut-leaved Bramble, a very 

 ornamental plant, is now common in gardens, fruiting 

 with freedom every year. 



For cultivation as a fruit-plant, especially in the man- 

 ner recommended on p. 208, there is no blackberry, after 

 all, equal, so far, to the "Wilson Junior," figured in 

 Garden Work for March 7, 1885, an American variety 

 brought out by Messrs. Viccars, Collyer, & Co., of 



