4 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1883. 



althongh extending from Ne.w Jersey to the Mississippi River. 

 But, almost without exception, do they relate the experience of 

 market-growers ; — nursery-men producing, upon a large scale^ 

 the plants, — in a majority of cases, the fruit also. No intelli- 

 gence, applicable to this extreme section of the Republic, can be 

 winnowed from that raw heap of confidence, No one wrote 

 from Clay-shire : and to New England, this side of Connecticut, 

 that geological, and almost geographical, expression, betrays all. 

 Said the late Dr. Brinckle to the writer, well-nigh thirty years 

 agone ; as they stood together in that famous back-yard between 

 Chestnut Street^ above Thirteenth, and Girard Roio ; we can 

 originate, but we cannot guaranty, growth in our soil. Vividly 

 can the writer recall that narrow space ; — through which one 

 had to thread his way between pots of seedling Raspberries ; 

 ducking his head underneath the clothes-line that could not be 

 denied to inexorable household necessity ; and then those three 

 Pear stocks along the brick party-wall, whose least limb had 

 been crowded with vigorous grafts by the untiring Doctor^ to 

 accelerate bearing ; and in the fortunate test of which, — their 

 comparative, or absolute, hardiness, fecundity, or quality, his 

 entire interest seemed to be reserved. Since his time we have 

 had Raspberries ; and — again Raspberries ! the puzzle being 

 sometimes of ditiicult solution where the rasp ended and the 

 berry commenced. But what other Pomologist, throughout this 

 broad Republic, can indicate a seedling originated by himself; 

 of permanent value ; or which deserves to be named in the same 

 day with the delicious Orange, of that overworked phj'sictian ? 



"Forsan et hsec olim meminisse juvabit." 



And therein must be sought the milk of this particular cocoa- 

 nut ; — the solution of the problem in hand. Brinckle's Orange 

 ranks easily first among all known Raspberries, in the points of 

 fecundity, beauty, and flavor. But it was never discovered by 

 Arctic explorers in their searches after the Polynia. Indeed, its 

 most ardent advocates are free to admit that it actually requires 

 protection throughout a Massachusetts Winter ; although not 

 more than a Potato during a Massachusetts Summer. And yet 

 with this sole drawback ; common as it is to every species of the 



