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stem : Skin, fair, smooth, yellowish green, regularly covered 

 with dark green specks, and finely spotted or rather marbled 

 with dull red on the sunny side : Stem, medium length, about 

 one inch, green, with a swollen and fleshy protuberance where 

 it adjoins the fruit, which is slightly upon one side : Eye, 

 medium size, open, little depressed, in a very shallow ba- 

 sin ; segments of the calyx short and round : Flesh, greenish 

 white, fine, buttery, melting and juicy : Flavor, sprightly, 

 with a peculiar delicious perfume : Core, small : Seeds, me- 

 dium size, very pointed, light brown. Ripe in September and 

 October. 



Mr. Manning states that it ripened September 17th, in 1841 ; 

 last year, which was remarkably early for pears, our draw- 

 ing and description was made the last week in that month. 



Art. IV. The Fastolff Raspberry : an account of its origin, 

 qualities, S^c, with an engraving of the fruit. By the 

 Editor. 



The first information we have of this very superior rasp- 

 berry, is an advertisement by Messrs. Youell & Co. in the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, oflering the plants for sale ; this was 

 in the autumn of 1842. In the summer of 1843, specimens 

 of the fruit were exhibited before the London Horticultural 

 Society, for which a premium was awarded ; specimens were 

 also sent to Mr. Robert Thompson, who stated that it was 

 " very large, obtusely conical, and of rich flavor, far exceed- 

 ing, in this respect, some other new and large varieties." 



In the fall of 1844, when in England, we made many in- 

 quiries concerning this new variety, and of those too who 

 had seen the fruit ; and we every where heard it so highly 

 spoken of that we immediately wrote to Messrs. Youell & 

 Co., and engaged a quantity of fine plants. With their an- 

 swer to our letter, they also sent us a beautiful drawing of 

 the fruit, a copy of which (^fig- 20) we now annex. 



This variety is said to have originated, long since, in a 

 garden in the neighborhood of Yarmouth, on the eastern coast 



