THE BLACKBERRY, 89 



seen handsome and excellent fruit of this variety, not 

 only in New England, but also in Western New York, 

 but there is a complaint in some quarters that it has a 

 tendency, like most other kinds, to deteriorate. Many 

 promising varieties from the woods or seedlings, on 

 being cultivated, have scarcely produced a single per- 

 fect berry. We personally know of but one decided 

 exception. 



Or New Rochelle, which is said to be a chance seed- 

 ling first picked up by the wayside, and has been most 

 successfully cultivated for many years in the pleasant 

 village of New Kochelle, near New York, where it 

 was discovered to have extraordinary vigor, growth, 

 size and uniform productiveness. 



Our attention was first called to it by some baskets. 

 of the fruit presented to the Farmers' Club of the 

 American Institute in the city of New York at their 

 regular meetings in August, 1852 and 1853, by Wil- 

 liam Lawton, Esq., an amateur cultivator, of Ne^r 

 Kochelle, who stated that it was familiarly known i i 

 the vicinity as the " New Eochelle Blackberry." 



The fruit was found to be of great size, uniformly 

 so, sixty to seventy of the berries filling a quart mea- 

 sure — very few seeds, light melting pulp, and of a 

 delicious flavor. 



