GUSHING RASPBERRY. 



Size Rather large. 



Form Roundish, conical. 



Color Crimson. 



Flavor Fine and sprightly. 



Maturity June and sometimes October. 



Leaf Much plaited, and regular in form. 



Stalk With brown spines. 



HISTORY, ETC. 



This new Raspberry was named in honor of I. P. Gushing, Esq., of Water- 

 town, Mass. It was produced from a seed of the new double bearing, which had 

 been imported by Mr. Robert Buist, of this city. The seed was planted, June 

 27th, 1843, and vegetated in the Spring of the following year. It fruited for the 

 first time in the Autumn of 1845, only one berry however matured at that time, 

 in consequence of the accession of cold weather. Besides fruiting in the summer, 

 it invariably makes an effort to produce a second crop in October ; and not unfre- 

 quently the effort proves successful. The October crop is always produced on the 

 wood grown the same season, and not on that of the preceding year. In 1850 

 the second crop commenced on the 20th of October, and in November following a 

 branch with ripe fruit on it, was cut off, and exhibited at the meeting of the 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. 



