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and ray table is supplied from the beginning of June 

 till frost. 



"By means of heat, under glass, it might be made 

 to bear well through the winter. The first of June it 

 produces a most abundant crop, about ten days earlier 

 than any other variety. The wood producing that 

 crop dies through the early part of the summer, and 

 the second shoots begin to ripen fruit before the crop 

 on the old wood is over, and continue to bear till 

 frost, and then produce the June crop of the follow- 

 ing season. The fruit is black, of good size, and is 

 preferred by a majority of persons at my table to the 

 Antwerp. The vine is a native of the northern part 

 of our state, where the summers are not as dry and 

 warm as at our city, and they have a substratum of 

 clay. In my garden the substratum is gravel, and 

 our summers are dry and hot. From these causes it 

 does not bear as well with me through the heat of 

 the summer as it does in its native region, and will 

 do in a cooler and moister climate. I sent some to my 

 sister, nine miles from New York, where the substra- 

 tum is clay, and the climate cooler and less subject 

 to drought. With her it produces double the fruit in 

 the heat of summer that it does with me. From these 

 causes I have believed it would bear most abundantly 

 in most parts of Great Britain. It does not increase by 

 offsets, as other raspberries do, but in September and 

 October the shoots descend to the ground, and each 

 one, as it strikes the earth, throws out six or seven 

 small shoots, that immediately take root and throw up 

 shoots. I say it is a native, because I have never 

 seen or heard of it except the few plants in a par- 

 ticular location where I found it in 1832. It has 



