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type, but are fully developed in every case — their 

 size is very large, nearly or quite equalling the best 

 specimens of the New Rochelle blackberry. In 

 quality and flavor they are far superior to any 

 blackberry known, and are very prolific and hardy. 



The plants propagate themselves by striking root 

 at the ends of the shoots, and never throw up any 

 suckers. 



The plat of ground which Dr. M. has devoted to 

 these fruits, is about one-eighth of an acre. The 

 plants are set out about five feet apart in squares ; 

 early in the spring a pole or stake is driven down 

 by the side of each plant, standing five or six feet 

 high, around which the fine, long, flexible shoots 

 of the previous year's growth are wound, and 

 fastened by a string, tying them at the top, thus 



FRUIT OP THE DEWBERRY — NATURAL SIZE. 



forming a kind of cylinder or cone. By this mode 

 of training, the fruit hangs outside, clear of the 

 foliage all around, affording the greatest facility 

 for gathering. The new growth is allowed to 

 trail on the ground until the succeeding spring. 



The plants do not occupy much 6pace, and three 

 feet each way would be ample room to allow them. 



We judged that the plants produced about two 

 quarts of berries each. 



The two varieties are distinct from each other 

 in fruit and foliage and period of ripening. The 

 early variety is more fragrant and sweeter than 

 the later one, and at the date we saw them (Aug. 



5th) was nearly gone, while the other was 

 perfection. It will be seen, therefore, tha 

 varieties mature earlier than either the Dor 

 or New Rochelle blackberries, which ai 

 (Aug. 20th) at the height of their season. 



As the originator of these fruits has 

 parted with some of the plants to different 5 

 uals, they will probably be spread throu 

 country from several sources, and as no 

 have been used to distinguish the varietl 

 possible that some confusion may arise in rt 

 to this matter, and we will notice that the 

 of the leaves of the early kind are den 

 doubly dentate, while those of the later var 

 sharply serrate. 



We think it desirable that the term Dc 

 should be used to designate these plants, in 

 Blackberry, as their mode of growth is so 

 different from the high Blackberry. 



In conclusion, we will state that it is our 

 tion that these fruits will meet with a cor 

 ception by the public, and for private gar 

 preferred to the rank-growing high black 

 in the market they will readily command i 

 price than any other blackberry, but as th 

 son is so much earlier they will not come 

 into competition. For a table fruit they ; 

 fair — sweet, juicy and luscious— no setting 

 teeth on edge. 



PROTECTION TO PEACH ORCHARDS NOT i 

 DESIRABLE. 



Edgar Sanders, a well-known horticult 

 Chicago, mentions a fact in the Prairie 

 which claim's attention. He has been to tl: 

 region around St. Josephs, Mich., and foi 

 in all exposed places the crop ica,s good — ( 

 cellent — while the protected orchards were a 



If true, the fact should be generally 

 For some years our horticultural writers 1 

 sisted on the importance of shelter. It h 

 thought that one of the principal reaso 

 peaches are a less certain crop in this secti 

 formerly was owing to the removal of the 

 which broke the force of the wind ; am 

 been thought desirable to form artificial sci 

 planting belts of rapid-growing trees. TI 

 ral testimony of fruit-growers is in favor o 

 practice. At the West, and more especiall; 

 prairies, these screens have been thought 

 indispensable to the success of an orchard. 



The fact mentioned by Mr. Sanders thro 

 doubts on the correctness of these views, 

 perience of Mr. Evans, of Southern IllinoL 



