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although it is probably long since extinct in America. 



Long worth's letter to the "Gardener's Magazine" 

 is not the earliest record of this raspberry, however. 

 The earliest note of it which I have seen is the fol- 

 lowing, in Hovey's "Magazine of Horticulture," Bos- 

 ton, for 1837: 



"Everbearing Raspberry. The 'Genesee Farmer' 

 states that a new kind of raspberry has been found in 

 New York state, near Lake Erie, by the Shakers 

 residing there, and that it produces its fruit through- 

 out the summer and autumn. It is also stated to be 

 really a valuable variety, and worthy of extensive cul- 

 tivation. The fruit in appearance is longer than the 

 wild black raspberry, and approaches near, in size and 

 excellence, to the White Antwerp, but is not so high 

 flavored. The habit of growth is somewhat similar 

 to the common purple raspberry, the shoots of which 

 are very vigorous, bending over and touching the 

 ground, and take root, by which mode it is rapidly 

 increased. Its mode of producing its fruit is as fol- 

 lows : In the spring the old shoots throw out their 

 new branches, as in other sorts upon which the first 

 crop appears, but soon the new shoots begin to grow, 

 and when they have attained a good size, which is 

 generally just before the first crop is gone, they pro- 

 duce the second crop ; to this latter circumstance it 

 owes its name, and its peculiarity. The fruit of the 

 second crop is considered the best. It is grown by 

 Mr. Longworth, of Cincinnati, and by the Shakers 

 near Lebanon, but has not yet found its way into any 

 of our Atlantic cities." 



In 1842, the same magazine makes another account 

 of this variety : 



