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be the same. The original name of the Bartel was 

 BartePs Mammoth, and it is now often sold under this 

 name, and sometimes Bartel is omitted. I have written 

 to nurserymen who advertise the Mammoth, and all the 

 replies which I have received state that Bartel, Bartel's 

 Mammoth and Mammoth are the same. It is a common 

 impression among growers and experimenters, however, 

 that the two are distinct, perhaps because they were 

 received under different names. Mr. Lyon, in the 

 Michigan report of new fruits, published in 1883, 

 says that the "Mammoth is another variety of similar 

 character [to Bartel] scarcely more productive. Eipe 

 August 1." Separate reports of Bartel and Mammoth 

 are given by the New York State Experiment Station, 

 and Professor Goff speaks of them as different in his 

 articles already quoted in "Garden and Forest," 1891. 

 But no one, so far as I can learn, has pointed out any 

 differences between the two. 



One of the replies to my inquiries of nurserymen, 

 from a very prominent western firm, is as follows: : 'As 

 to Mammoth, we verily believe there is in reality no 

 specific variety generally distributed and known under 

 this name. Twenty years ago Dewey, the plate maker, 

 had a plate called 'Mammoth Prolific Dewberry,' and so 

 long ago as 1873 we scoured the country over trying to 

 find a few hundred of something by this name for a 

 customer who had sold them from the aforesaid plate, 

 but could not learn of anything of the kind then in 

 existence. Since the introduction of Lucretia, a firm 

 in Jackson county, 111., brought out a variety they 

 called Mammoth, and while we are not absolutely sure, 

 we think it was merely a wild variety which they took 

 up, propagated, and gave this name. We obtained 



