286 THE EVOLUTION OF OUR NATIVE FRUITS 



restaurateurs, and the best American and foreign 

 wines, with the addition of the elite of our citizens 

 and the gardeners, formed a scene such as I have wit- 

 nessed in no country. The occasion proved a most 

 interesting one, serving not only to make people bet- 

 ter acquainted with each other, but to promote the 

 cause of fruit progress. 



"On one occasion a pleasant ruse was tried upon 

 the palates of some of our best judges of wine. Long- 

 worth's champagne was then a new and unknown pro- 

 duct, and a supply had been forwarded to the Doctor. 

 I was requested to change the labels from some very 

 superior foreign champagne to Longworth's bottles, 

 and to replace his on the European. Then came the 

 trial! The supposed foreign was condemned and 

 Longworth's had the preference from some of the 

 most noted Cognescenti. The triumph was complete, 

 and was long a standing subject of hilarity and joke. 



"Little in the way of labored panegyric need be 

 said of our lamented friend. His own merits are 

 established, 'and his deeds do follow him.'" 



The Present Types of Cultivated Raspberries 



With the exception of the English Red, there 

 appears to have been no native red raspberry in cul- 

 tivation until nearly or quite 1860, when Allen's Red 

 Prolific and Allen's Antwerp varieties sent out by 

 L. F. Allen, Black Rock, N. Y., and which, accor- 

 ding to A. S. Fuller, were "merely accidental varieties 

 of the wild red raspberry of his locality" were intro- 

 duced to the public ; and it was many years after this 

 that the true red raspberries began to attract much 



