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north-east of this city, from whence, from the best evidence 

 I can procure, it has been very slowly spread into this city 

 and vicinity. To my mind, it is valuable as a constant bear- 

 er: it has none of those claims, however, for superior size 

 and flavor, set up for it; with me, it commences bearing, and 

 ripens its fruit, with most other varieties, in June, which is 

 full and abundant, when it continues to send up a succession 

 of strong and vigorous shoots from the roots of the old plant, 

 which keep up a succession of bloom and maturing fruit the 

 remainder of the summer, not however so profusely as the 

 first fruiting, though of larger size, and, 1 am inclined to 

 think, of better flavor. This circumstance is, perhaps, owing 

 to the fact, that there is less rain and more sun in the latter 

 part of summer than in June. The fruit is black, strongly 

 resembling the black raspberry of our hills and mountains in 

 size and flavor, and, like it, propagates itself from the ends of 

 the new shoots, which branch just below the cluster of fruit, 

 on the end of the same; those branches grow beyond the 

 cluster of fruit, and bend themselves over to the ground, and 

 again fork, near the end, into several parts; on the ends of 

 these sub-branches roots are formed, which fasten themselves 

 into the ground, and thus form new plants. The roots of the 

 mother plant continue to increase in size and strength, throw- 

 ing up a greater succession of fruit-bearing stems to occupy 

 the place of the first bearers, which invariably dry up after 

 they have performed the office of producing one crop of 

 fruit. 



When I say it has no claims to the high reputation for fla- 

 vor set up for it by some of the writers who have noticed it, 

 I do not mean to be understood as denying it all claim to the 

 same; I only wish to correct what I believe, with due defer- 

 ence to the tastes and judgments of the respectable gentlemen 

 who have written on this valuable fruit, to be an error; my 

 desire is to do it justice, and I think this will be found to be 

 ample, on trial, to recommend it to the favorable attention of 

 the public, and to occupy a conspicuous place in the fruit de- 

 partment of every well selected collection. It cannot fail to 

 prove a valuable kind in the vicinity of all large cities, as a 

 market fruit. To give you some idea of the productiveness 

 of this plant, I counted 105 berries in their various stages on 

 the end of one stem, forming one cluster. 



Considerable has already been written upon this valuable 

 fruit; but if you think the above will tend to promote its dis- 



