280 THE EVOLUTION OP OUR NATIVE FRUITS 



"The Everbearing Raspberry. In our Vol. III., p. 

 154, under our Miscellaneous Notices, we gave an 

 account [quoted above] of this fruit, which had then 

 just been brought into notice ; since then, we have 

 heard very little of it till the past year. It is now 

 attracting more attention, and as it is deemed a valu- 

 able acquisition, we have copied a further description 

 of it below, which we find in the 'American Agricul- 

 turist : ' 



"The Ohio everbearing raspberry was first dis- 

 covered some fifteen years ago, in the northern part 

 of the state, near Lake Erie, but in what particular 

 part is unknown. Mr. Longworth, of Cincinnati, intro- 

 duced it into his garden in 1832, at which period he 

 was driven into the back country by the cholera, where 

 he found it growing. It has been little known, how- 

 ever, in Cincinnati, until within the last two years, 

 but there is now great effort made by the gardeners 

 to cultivate it for the market of that city. The fruit 

 resembles the wild native raspberry, but is much 

 larger, more fleshy, and of a much finer flavor, and 

 is almost a very ^profuse bearer. In Cincinnati, the 

 wood of the previous year bears one crop in June, 

 after which it soon dies ; the young shoots then come 

 into bearing, and continue doing so into October, till 

 the frost cuts them off, when may be seen buds and 

 blossoms, and the fruit in every stage from green up 

 to full ripe, on the bush, stayed by the hand of nature 

 in the midst of their productiveness. The fruit is 

 preferred by many to the Red Antwerp, and with its 

 large, erect clusters of flowers, presents a beautiful 

 appearance. 



"Mr. Longworth, in a communication describing 



