THE' GENESEE FARMER. 



A NEW FRUIT. 



dtb much pleasure that we are enabled to 

 e our readers some facts in reference to a 

 ch promises to be of high value, both to 

 iteur cultivator and the market fruit- 

 For sometime we have been aware that Dr. 

 >f Honeoye Falls, in this county, was the 



PLANT OF THE DEWBERRY. 



ttor of a seedling Dewberry, but as the Dr. 

 en desirous to fully prove the success of his 

 aking before allowing it to be much known, 

 tention has been but little attracted to it 

 tie present season. 



A present of two baskets of this fruit— two dis- 

 tinct varieties— and an invitation to come and see 

 for ourselves, and we must not omit the fragrance 

 of those two baskets of fruit nor the pleasure we 

 enjoyed in eating them with our friends, awakened 

 a latent curiosity to see, to feel and to handle the 

 fruit on the plants— to learn of their mode of 

 growth, their cultivation and their his- 

 tory. 



Without detaining our readers with 

 the details of our pleasant visit, we will 

 mention what we saw and learned of 

 the new fruits, for as we have intimated 

 the Dr. has succeeded in raising two 

 seedlings of superior merit. These 

 seedlings were originated six or eight 

 years ago, from seed of the common wild 

 Dewborry, or low Blackberry (Eubtis 

 Canadensis). Among a great number 

 of plants which were produced and kept 

 in cultivation until they showed their 

 fruit, two only showed signs of merit, 

 which were very decided ; all the other 

 plants were discarded, and these two 

 were cultivated with care for several 

 years to see if their apparent characters 

 were real and permanent. Fortunately 

 the desires of the experimenter have 

 been fully realized, and several years of 

 • continuous fruiting has firmly establish- 

 ed their value. 



As all our readers may not be ac- 

 quainted with the habits of this plant, 

 we will briefly state its distinguishing 

 traits. A 



The slender stems, *bout a quarter ot 

 an inch in diameter, trail along on the 

 ground extending from the root to a dis- 

 tance of ten or fifteen feet-a vigorous 

 _ plant produces a score or more of these 

 < stems eaoh season. 



The stems are furnished with a very 

 few small thorns, and trifoliate leaves ; 

 the leaflets are about an inch and a halt 

 long and half as wide, of a light green 

 color ; leaf stem from one to two inches 

 in length and a little prickly. 



The fruit is borne on slender stems 



two or three inches in length, is 



shining, jet black, fragrant, sweet and 



Most of the fruit in a wild state in 



imperfect, developing a drupe only here and 



there over its surface; cultivation of the wiM 



plants does not in the least improve this habit, 



according to Dr. M. The seedlings to which we 



aow direct attention have not this fault of the wild 



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juicy- 



