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tarts and pies, and sometimes as a dessert. The Missouri Currant, B. 

 aureum, has been introduced on account of the luxuriance of its growth, and 

 the beauty and fragrance of the flowers ; and another from California, i?. 

 specibsum, which has been erected into the genus Robsonia, deserves to be 

 introduced." — p. 419. 



The Round-leaved Gooseberry, (Rlbes rotundifoliimi, L.) 



" No native gooseberry promises so much as this. The introduced spe- 

 cies often refuses to flourish in our gardens, even with careful cultivation. 

 It is not perfectly adapted to our soil and climate. But this native one is ; 

 and, if the art of cultivation can make as great a difference in it as has been 

 made in the wild European gooseberry, the fruit will be the finest of the 

 kind in the world. The cultivated species, on its cold, northern, native 

 mountains, is small, hard, hairy and acerb. Cultivation points at its large, 

 beautiful, firm, sweet, delicious fruit, as the triumph of art. This change 

 has been produced by long and careful culture. What may not be made, 

 by similar efforts, of a fruit perfectly suited to our climate, which, in its 

 natural state, is pronounced delicious ! 



" Found in mountainous and rocky places from Massachusetts to the moun- 

 tains of North Carolina, and west to beyond the Rocky Mountains." — p. 421. 



Of fine, wild, native species and varieties of the Raspber- 

 ries, we are informed that — 



"The wild Red Raspberry, 1? slrigbsus, not inferior to the cultivated, 

 and very nearly like it, and the High Blackberry,!?, villosus and R. 

 frbndosus, and some varieties of the Low Blackberry, R. Canadensis, of 

 Torrey and Gray, are delicious and wholesome fruits. They difl^er much 

 in different localities. This circumstance is worthy of consideration with 

 those who mean to attempt to improve these fruits by cultivation. The 

 variety of High Backberry found u,t Fall River and around Buzzard's Bay, 

 is superior to any that I have tasted, in the vicinity of Boston." — p. 429. 



We have already alluded to the practical value of the Com- 

 mon Locust tree ; beside this, it is an universal, and deservedly 

 so, favorite of all, whether we take into consideration the del- 

 icacy of its foliage, or the snowy grace of its pendent blos- 

 soms. Of late years, its cultivation has been much checked 

 in consequence of the extensive ravages of the locust borer, 

 an insect of insidious habits, and of destructive tendency. 

 Premiums, we believe, have been repeatedly offered for cer- 

 tain and sure preventives of its fatal evil : — 



