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;md then a patient investigator was working out new 

 problems and securing new varieties. The bud of a 

 new type of agriculture was slowly developing. We 

 now foresee the full bloom.* 



Among the earliest American experimenters with 

 raspberries was Dr. William D. Brinckle, of Philadel- 

 phia, "a busy physician, who," as Professor Card 

 writes, "having a taste for pomology, pursued it as a 

 means of recreation from other duties. He experi- 

 mented with strawberries and pears, as well as with 

 raspberries. So important was his work in these 

 lines that he seems to be much better remembered for 

 that than for his medical reputation, although he was 

 successful and prominent in this field also. He was 

 president of the American Pomological Society at its 

 second session, and for many years vice-president of 

 the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, repeatedly 

 refusing its presidency. Unfortunately, his work on 

 raspberries was with the Rubus Idceus species, and 

 most of the varieties which he produced have suffered 

 the fate of the class to which they belong; yet he 

 obtained in Brinckle 's Orange the variety which has 

 stood as the desideratum to be sought in quality to 

 the present day." This variety has the following his- 

 tory, to quote Dr. Brinckle himself : " It originated 

 * * * * * from a seed of Dyark's Seedling, 

 a large English crimson variety, imported by Mr. 

 Robert Buist, of Philadelphia. The seed was planted 

 July 13th, 1843, vegetated in the spring of 1844, 

 fruited in 1845, and described in the 'Horticulturist' 



*For a. very full description of all the varieties of raspberries cultivated in 

 the United States, see (Jrozier, Bull. Ill, Mich. Kxp. Sta. Consult, also, Card 1 * 

 "Bush-Fruits." 



