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might have dimmed the editor's memory, I set about 

 to procure a file of the eighteen volumes of the 

 journal. The set was found and purchased. One of 

 the volumes contained an account of the dewberry, 

 written by "T. C. Bartles, of Clinton county, Illinois," 

 as already quoted, but the narrative gave no infor- 

 mation as to the origin of the berry. It was neces- 

 sary, therefore, to discover the address of Mr. Bartles 

 and to correspond with him, but I could not secure 

 his address. The editor did not remember it. In 

 vain every horticultural and agricultural report of 

 Illinois was scanned. Files of periodicals were 

 searched. When every resource seemed to have 

 been exhausted, a catalogue of a western spray- 

 pump manufacturer fell into my hands, in which was 

 a testimonial of the pumps signed by T. C. Bartles, 

 Clinton county, Illinois ! The catalogue maker sup- 

 plied the post office address. But it turned out that 

 this T. C. Bartles, of Huey, Clinton county, 111., 

 was a townsman but not kinsman of Dr. Bartel, the 

 man who introduced the berry! Dr. Bartel had died 

 some years before, but Mr. Bartles was able to supply 

 the history. 



It is only within the last ten years that the dew- 

 berries have attracted much attention from horticul- 

 turists. The varieties have now increased to twenty or 

 more, every one of which seems to have been picked 

 up in the wild. If we would understand these varie- 

 ties, we must look more closely into the botanical fea- 

 tures of the dewberries. The three commonest species 

 of dewberries are Rubus villosus (Rubus Canadensis 

 of all writers), R. hispidus, and R. trivialis. The 

 first two are northern species and the last southern. 



