348 THE EVOLUTION OP OUR NATIVE FRUITS 



forms, and the botanical rank of the species cannot be 

 fully determined until our rubuses have received further 

 study. The cut (Fig. 75) shows a flowering stem of 

 the wild plant which grows at Ithaca, New York. It 

 grows here upon a rocky hillside, completely covering 

 the ground with a tangled mat a foot or a foot and a 

 half thick. The first ripe fruits on this wild patch 

 appear late in July. The fruits are small, containing 

 from six to eighteen drupelets, and are of no value. 

 In cultivation, this type has given us the Bartel, 

 already mentioned, and the three following : 



GENERAL GRANT, introduced by Charles A. Green, 

 of Rochester, N. Y., in 1885 or 1886, as a premium to 

 his "Fruit Grower." It came from M. W. Broyles, 

 somewhere in Tennessee. Mr. Green informs me that 

 the variety did not prove to be as valuable as repre- 

 sented to him, and he therefore dropped it. I first grew 

 the variety in 1886, and it seems to possess little value. 

 The variety has never become prominent. 



NEVER FAIL. I know this only from a specimen and 

 notes sent me by F. L. Wright, Plainfield, Mich., who 

 obtained it from some person in central Indiana. He 

 says : "It never fails to produce an abundance of wood, 

 but always fails to produce fruit. I never had a perfect 

 berry." It is said to have originated in central Ohio. 



MAMMOTH. There are certainty two plants sold 

 under this name, one being Rubus invisus and the other 

 apparently true Rubus villosus. The former is, I think, 

 the same as Bartel, but the history and characteristics 

 of the latter I have been unable to trace. 



So far as I can learn, the commoner Mammoth dew- 

 berry offered by nurserymen is only the Bartel, and 

 the plants which I have grown and seen of it appear to 



