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red varieties, some of which will equal if not excel some 

 of the old sorts of the same color. No. 3, Orange, is a most 

 delicious berry, and we think nearly or quite equal to 

 Brinckle's Orange. No, 1, Red, is a most vigorous grower, 

 in fact, tree-like, o-rowinsf six to eis^ht feet hig^h Avith 

 stocky cane, with large lateral branches. All the varieties 

 appear to be perfectly hardy. Another season we hope to 

 give an accurate description of all of these hybrids, and 

 their names. 



BurUngt07i [Prosser). — The late Benjamin Prosser, of 

 Burlington, N". J., raised several varieties of raspberries 

 from seed. None of them, however, we believe, were dis- 

 seminated by him ; but since his death, a son has been 

 selling one or more of them as Prosser's Seedling. Mr. 

 Edmund Morris proposed, in 1866, that as no name had 

 been fixed upon for it, as it Avas then supposed 07ie 

 variety, it should be called the Burlington, and his 

 proposition was adoj^ted. See " Small Fruit Culturist," 

 page 159. 



In company with two well-known fruit-growers we 

 visited the Prosser garden the past summer and saw the 

 Prosser, or Burlington, in fruit. We found not only one 

 variety, but four, mixed together in one bed, and we 

 failed to learn which one was to be called the Prosser or 

 Burlington. Some of these varieties, and perhaps all of 

 them, are really Avorthy of trial elsewhere ; but -some one 

 should see that they were separated and described before 

 the public are asked to pay five to ten dollars per plant, 

 as has been done in the past year. We do not think that 

 those who have these varieties in charge would intention- 



