1 54 FRUIT GARDEN. 



The Blackberry is becoming an important fruit in the 

 United States. Thousands of bushels are gathered from 

 the woods and open lands of our country and brought into 

 market. Various attempts have been made to cultivate 

 these wild plants, but usually with very indifferent success, 

 Capt. Lovett, of Mass., has succeeded with an improved 

 variety of raising fine fruit, but a complaint is made that 

 they degenerate under other treatment. A new variety 

 was discovered some years since at New Rochelle, near 

 New York, and brought into notice by Wm. Lawton, Esq., 

 of that place, which seems to supply the desideratum. It 

 is very large, a great bearer, pulpy, and delicious flavor. It 

 loves a cool, moist, shady soil ; is easily cultivated, and is 

 every where becoming a universal favorite. The Congress 

 of Fruit Growers have adopted it. It is called the Law- 

 ton, or New Rochelle Blackberry. 



The Strawberry (Fragaria) belongs to the same na- 

 tural family as the raspberry. Amongst the numerous 

 kinds cultivated in English gardens, botanists have dis- 

 tinguished several species, but as these distinctions imply 

 no difference in culture, and as it is difficult to trace them 

 amid the sportings of the hybrids, we shall not pretend to 

 enumerate them. Scarcely any plant more readily slides into 

 seminal varieties ; and, indeed, till lately, in consequence 

 of the irregular prevalence of local names, their whole 

 nomenclature was a chaos of confusion. At the instance 

 of the Horticultural Society of London, Mr, Barnet under- 

 took a revision of the subject : and, with great acuteness 

 and discrimination, has removed much ambiguity, and 

 finally settled the names of the existing varieties. His 

 paper, which is well worth the perusal of every student of 

 horticulture, is in the sixth volume of the London Trans- 

 actions. In the second edition of the Catalogue of the 

 London Horticultural Society, no fewer than 112 varieties 

 are enumerated. But the following are sufficient, and an 



