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name for the BranJyvviiie. It soon became the principal 

 raspberry grown along the Brandywine Creek, and as the 

 market-men would persist in caUing it after its chief haunt, 

 it will probably bear the historical name until it passes 

 wliolly out of favor. Its popularity is already on the wane, 

 because of its dry texture and insipid flavor, but its bright 

 color, good size, and especially its firmness and remarkable 

 carrying qualities, will ever lead to its ready sale in the mar- 

 ket. It is not a tall, vigorous grower, except in very rich 

 land. The young canes are usually small, slender, of a pale 

 red color, and have but few spines. Like nearly all the 

 R. Stngosus species, it tends to sucker immoderately. If 

 this disposition is rigorously checked by hoe and cultivator, 

 it is productive ; otherwise, the bearing canes are choked 

 and rendered comparatively unfruitful. This variety is wan- 

 ing before the Cuthbert, — a larger and much better berry. 



The Turner is another of this class, and, in Mr. Charles 

 Downing's opinion, is the best of them. It was introduced 

 by Professor J. B. Turner, of Illinois, and is a great favorite 

 in many parts of the West. It has behaved well on my 

 place for several years, and I am steadily increasing my 

 stock of it. I regard it as the hardiest raspberry in culti- 

 vation, and a winter must be severe, indeed, that injures it. 

 Like the Crescent Seedling strawberry, it will grow anywhere, 

 and under almost any conditions. The laziest man on the 

 continent can have its fruit in abundance, if he can muster 

 sufficient spirit to put out a few roots, and hoe out all the 

 suckers except five or six in the hill. It is early, and in 

 flavor surpasses all of its class ; the fruit is only moderately 

 firm. Plant a few in some out-of-the-way place, and it will 

 give the largest return for the least amount of labor of any 

 kind with which I am acquainted. Tiie canes are very vig- 

 orous, of a golden reddish-brown, like mahogany, over whicl:^ 



