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Art. II. Domestic Notices. 



Everbearing Raspberry. — The Gennesee Farmer states that a new kind 

 of raspberry has been found in New York state, near Lake Erie, by the 

 Shakers residing there, and that it produces its fruit throughout the 

 summer and autumn. It is also stated to be really a valuable variety, 

 and worthy of extensive cultivation. The fruit in appearance is longer 

 than the wild black raspberry, and approaches near, in size and excel- 

 lence, to the White Antwerp, but is not so high flavored. The habit of 

 growth is somewhat similar to the common purple raspberrj'^, the shoots 

 of which are very vigorous, bending over and touching the ground, and 

 take root, by which mode it is rapidly increased. Its mode of produc- 

 ing its fruit is as follows: — In the spring the old shoots throw out their 

 new branches, as in other sorts upon which the first crop appears, but 

 soon the new shoots begin to grow, and when they have attained a good 

 size, which is generally just before the first crop is gone, they produce 

 the second crop: to this latter circumstance it owes its name, and its 

 peculiarity. The fruit of the second crop is considered the best. It is 

 grown by Mr. Longworth, of Cincinnati, and by the Shakers near Leb- 

 anon, but has not yet found its way into any of our Atlantic cities. — Cond. 



Hyacinths. — Notwithstanding so much has been already written, and 

 so much commendation been bestowed on the cultivation of these uni- 

 versally favorite plants, there is one hint which I would throw out, 

 hoping it may call forth a practical essay on a very desirable point. 

 Whoever has grown a really fine hyacinth would be very unwilling 

 ever to grow a decidedly poor one; and it is to encourage such a laud- 

 able taste, that I wish a greater facility to its existence. As a general 

 rule it is stated, that the single varieties are better fitted for glasses 

 than the double, and even for pot cultivation possess the merit of being 

 earlJ^ But it is evident to any one who has raised and forced hyacinths 

 for a number of years, that this is no safe criterion by which to be 

 guided. A very accurate list of the precise time of flowering of each 

 desirable variety is needed. Supposing fifty varieties are grown, and 

 many a small green-house may or ought to boast of so many, and these 

 are all planted on the same day, treated with the same soil and care, 

 of the same good quality of bulb, in every external respect equal, there 

 will be, i*'stead of a simultaneous flowering, a gradual succession. 

 Now, it is very desirable that amateurs and florists should keep a 

 memorandum or diary of the flowering of their hyacinths; and by this 

 means many an inexperienced and perhaps unsuccessful lover of such 

 plants would be greatly encouraged, and would appreciate still more 

 this kind of floriculture. I hope, Mr. Editor, you will consider this, 

 and give us from your own experience such a table. The utility of it 

 must strike every one, especially when applied to those more costly 

 varieties, from which the possessor would like to derive the finest pos- 

 sible bloom. He would be guided by a more convenient and safer rule 

 than the pushing of the bulb, especially if he plunges his pots in the 

 cellar, and brings them to light as occasion requires; and with such 

 knowledge the parlor could be supplied with a constant bloom for sev- 

 eral months. Lists of kinds arranged, not simply according to color, 

 or their single or double qualities, but according to a better plan, their 

 periodical inflorescence, would afford the florist of more limited nicans 

 and conveniences the very knowledge which he most needs. Observations 

 of this kind should be made on every new variety, the experience of which 

 should be added to the general sum. Every one knows there are bulbs 

 which might well be called the earliest and the latest flowerers, and 

 there are, too, numberless intermediate ones. Some of the best double 



