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this fruit, in the 'Gardener's Magazine' [already 

 quoted] , states that the plants, in light, dry soils, are 

 not very productive in the autumn crop ; but if grown 

 on a stiff loam on a clayey subsoil, bear profusely till 

 destroyed by frost. From all that has been said in 

 relation to it, it appears a desirable fruit, and we hope 

 soon to test its qualities ourselves." 



From these two last accounts, one is not sure 

 whether the variety was found in New York or Ohio, 

 notwithstanding the explicit statement [p. 279] that it 

 came from New York state, for it is stated that it had 

 not yet found its way into the Atlantic states, but was 

 grown only by Longworth and by the Shakers at 

 Lebanon, which is about thirty miles from Cincinnati ; 

 and, moreover, it could not have occurred in the 

 " northern part of the state " of New York and yet be 

 found "near Lake Erie." Longworth's own account 

 explicitly states that he found the berry in Ohio. 



The berry became known as the Ohio Everbearing, 

 and, by the natural process of elimination, as the 

 Ohio. At the present time, an Ohio raspberry is 

 extensively cultivated, so extensively that in western 

 New York alone probably not less than a thousand 

 tons of the dried berries are marketed each year from 

 this single variety. But this contemporaneous variety 

 is not the berry of Longworth. It originated from a 

 single plant which came in a planting of another 

 variety, obtained from Ohio, early in the sixties, upon 

 the farm of Hiram Van Dusen, of Palmyra, New 

 York. The old Ohio has passed away, but berry- 

 growers have not known the fact, because the present 

 variety, of like name, has been confounded with it. 

 The materials which are concerned in the evolution 



