48 RECOKD OF IIORTICULTUKE. 



While's Ilyhrida. — Mr. A. P. Wylie, of South Carolina, 

 is said to have produced some very promising hybrids 

 between the Clinton and Black Hamburgh. The Clinton is 

 one of our hardiest and most healthy varieties, and a good 

 stock from which to raise new sorts. Mr. Arnold's success 

 with the Clinton has, as well as Mr. Wylie's, proved beyond 

 a doubt that some very valuable varieties may be expected 

 from this source. 



BLACKBEREIES. * 



The blackberry appears to attract the larger share of 

 attention among tlie small-fruit growers. Several new 

 varieties have made their appearance in the past year, and 

 most of the older ones have done so well that plantations 

 of this fruit are being greatly extended. The prospects of 

 small-fruit culture are certainly very encouraging, but it 

 is to be hoped that our horticulturist will not go to such 

 extremes as in the days of the morus multicaulis, or get 

 up a ruhus tnania. If all the world were honest as well 

 as cautious, then we should have little to fear, but the 

 truth compels us to say that tliey are not, at least not as a 

 whole ; and there are men who will swindle the j)eople if 

 they can, and there always seems to be a cliance, as there 

 are j^lenty who have more money than caution. We still 

 need a national experimental garden in whicli to test tlie 

 new varieties, or that whicli would be far better, a 

 national committee, the members of which should be 

 located in differejit portions of the country, their duty 

 being to test or gather information and report upon the 

 new and old varieties of fruits in their vicinity. The 

 time must come when no new variety of fruit or flower 



