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firmest. After the meeting, a gentleman who had both varieties in bearing told 

 me he thought the Naomi more productive and superior as a market-fruit. 



At the meeting of the State Horticultural Society at Columbus, last December, 

 there was a discussion on raspberries ; and, information being called for respect- 

 ing the Naomi, Col. Richmond of Sandusky, who is an extensive fruit-grower, 

 said he was very much interested as one of the committee who inspected the 

 raspberries around Cleveland the past summer ; and, in reference to the raspberry 

 which they called the Naomi, he was in some doubt in regard to the correctness 

 of the name ; for he and some of his friends had plants procured as Naomi from 

 the headquarters of that variety, as they supposed, and the fruit is not at all 

 equal to what the committee found at Mr. Hall's and on a small portion of Mrs. 

 Wood's grounds and Mr. Elliott's : and he would say of Mr. Hall's Naomi crop, 

 that it exceeded any thing that he had before seen in this country or in Europe ; 

 and he had made the small fruits a study for many years, travelling thousands 

 of miles to visit the most noted growers, and observing all the fruits in the mar- 

 kets. He was satisfied that Mr. Hall's plants had received no extra care or 

 cultivation, and no winter protection. 



Mr. Elliott gave the history of the Naomi in substance as in this article ; and 

 in reference to the confusion as to the true sort, referred to by .Mr. Richmond, 

 he said there had been inexcusable negligence on the part of those having the 

 care of Mrs. Wood's grounds, in not taking pains, years ago, to separate the 

 Naomi plants from the inferior seedlings growing with them, and which obtained 

 such ascendency in number, that, in procuring a hundred plants for himself, he 

 afterwards found only ten or a dozen of them genuine : hence it was possible that 

 some others got none but the spurious. In reply to the inquiry as to the differ- 

 ence between the Naomi and Franconia, Mr. Elliott said he had both varieties in 

 his grounds; and while there was much resemblance in the fruit, and he thought 

 the Naomi was probably a seedling of the Franconia, there was quite a differ- 

 ence in the superior hardiness of the plant of the Naomi, by which it was able 

 to withstand the winters of Northern Ohio, while the Franconia, like the other 

 foreign varieties of its class, needs protection. M. B. Bateham. 



Note. — Having received the above communications on the Naomi Raspberry, each from a correspond- 

 ent of" the highest authority, and each of which would be entitled to entire confidence were it not for the 

 other, we have thought the best course we could adopt would be to publish both articles entire. — Eds. 



Borers. — Our method of destroying the apple-borer when he is in the 

 tree too far to be reached with the point of a knife or wire : Take a piece of 

 half-inch lead pipe, say three feet long; bend one end to nearly right angles, and 

 fit the same to the borer's hole, the main length of the pipe standing perpendicu- 

 lar ; place a tunnel in the top end, and fill the pipe with boiling water : the borers 

 will soon be dead, while the tenderest tree will not be injured by the process. 



Meredith, N.H. .S". A. Ladd. 



