150 SMALL FRUIT CULTURIST. 



hand-gathering, and the smaller ones can usually be 

 driven off by dusting the plants with lime. 



DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. 

 NATIVE SPECIES AND VARIETIES. 



CLASS I. THE BLACK CAPS (Rubus Occident alis). 



American Black. (Black Raspberries, Black Cap 

 Raspberry, Thimble Berry). Fruit medium, slightly 

 oval, black with bloom ; sweet pleasant flavor ; there is but 

 little juice, a greater portion of the berry being seeds. 

 The plant roots from the ends of the young canes. In its 

 wild state one of the most variable species known. Com- 

 mon in all parts of the United States. 



American White Cap. (Yellow Cap, Golden Cap.) 

 Fruit one-half to five-eighths of an inch broad ; slightly 

 oval ; grains larger than in the preceding variety ; pale 

 or deep yellow, covered with a white bloom ; sweet, juicy, 

 rather musky, but agreeable ; canes light yellow, slightly 

 glaucous, very strong, stocky, with a few short spines ; 

 only moderately productive. This variety is also found 

 wild from Maine to the Mississippi River, and probably 

 farther West. I have received it from nearly all the 

 Northern States, and from the southern portion of the 

 State of Delaware. 



American Improved. (Doolittle's Black Cap, Joslyn's 

 Improved, Improved Black Cap Raspberry). Large, 

 black, with slight bloom ; sweet, juicy, of the same flavor 

 as the Wild Black Raspberry ; canes very vigorous, with 

 numerous strong-hooked prickles. The extremely thorny 

 character of the plant is its greatest fault, as it is equally 

 as disagreeable a subject to work among as the Blackberry. 

 Very productive and hardy. Found growing wild by 

 Leander Joslyn, of Phelps, Ontario County, K Y. 



