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The salient points in our raspberry history, then, 

 are these : The Old World berry was early introduced 

 and widely tested, but it proved to be tender, and is 

 now known in this country only in the gardens of 

 amateurs. The varieties which we now grow are all 

 derived from our native species. The first of these 

 native berries to be domesticated appears to have been 

 a natural hybrid between the wild black and the wild 

 red, and to have come into cultivation about 1825. 

 This hybrid class, which seems to be the most rromis 

 ing type of American berries, was not recognized as dis- 

 tinct until Fuller denned his purple -cane group in 

 1867; in 1869, Peck founded a new species of rubus on 

 it, calling it Rubus neglectus; in 1890 the purple-cane 

 raspberries and Rubus neglectus were determined to be 

 of similar type and origin. The first direct effort at 

 improving the native berry was the introduction of a 

 promising wild Ohio berry in 1832 by Nicholas Long- 

 worth, and this berry subsequently came to be known 

 as Ohio Everbearing. The chief merit of this first 

 cultivated black -cap, in the eyes of its disseminators, 

 was its habit of bearing a second crop of fruit in the 

 fall, a feature which is by no means uncommon in the 

 black raspberries. This Ohio is probably no longer 

 cultivated, but there is another Ohio raspberry, of later 

 origin, which is widely grown. The general influence 

 of amelioration in enlarging the fruit and condensing 

 the cluster is shown in Fig. 55. The Gregg is a fail- 

 example of the improved black-cap, although a recent 

 variety has brought the size of individual berries to an 

 inch in length and three inches in circumference at 

 the base. The domestication of the true wild red 

 raspberry began shortly before 1860. But the red 



