WESTJ^BN DEWBEBBr VABIETIES 247 



IX. The Western Dewberries 

 Rubus vitifolius 



Aughinhaugh.— This is one of the best known varieties of the 

 Western dewberry, and is especially noteworthy as being the pa- 

 rent of the Loganberry which has attracted so much attention of 

 late. It was propagated and sold by a man named Aughinbaugh, 

 about 1875. The blossoms are pistillate, which means that it 

 should be planted with other varieties to furnish pollen. The fruit 

 is said to be of excellent quality, but the plant is a weak grower 

 and unproductive. 



Humboldt.— A writer in The Rural New-Yorker for 1896, p. 

 574, mentions this as having been selected from the wild black- 

 berry of California, and describes it as a rampant grower and 

 abundant bearer, ripening with Hansell raspberry, a month before 

 the Early Harvest blackberry. Fruit jet black, one and one-half 

 inches long by one inch thick, in selected specimens. Flavor 

 "marvelous, delightfully spicy, with a wild-wood aroma." 



Loganberry {Rubus vitifolius X Idmis [?] ) .— This berry orig- 

 inated on the grounds of Judge J. H. Logan, of Santa Cruz, 

 California, in 1882, from seed planted by him the preceding year. 

 A full account of its origin, as given by Judge Logan himself, 

 appears in Bulletin 45 of the Rhode Island Experiment Station. 

 It seems that he had for some time been interested in raspber- 

 ries and blackberries, and had growing together the Texas Early 

 blackberry, the Aughinbaugh dewberry, and an old but unknown 

 variety of red raspberry, resembling the Red Antwerp. In August 

 of 1881 he planted seeds of the Aughinbaugh, expecting to get a 

 cross between it and the Texas Early. He raised about fifty 

 seedlings. One of these, the Loganberry, was very similar in 

 every respect to the parent, but much larger and a stronger grower. 

 At the time the seed was sown Judge Logan did not think it pos- 

 sible to cross the Aughinbaugh with the raspberry, but the char- 

 acters developed by this seedling have convinced him that it is 

 almost certainly a hybrid between them. One remarkable fact 

 stated by him is that out of thousands of plants grown from seeds 

 of this variety, not one has ever shown, so far as he is aware, 

 any of the distinct characteristics of either parent, not one has 

 gone back to the original type of either the raspberry or the 

 Aughinbaugh, though most of them are inferior to the original 

 plant. He also states that he has never succeeded in crossing the 

 Loganberry with either of its parents, nor with seedling crosses 

 between the Aughinbaugh and the Texas blackberry, Fig. 31 is 

 used, bv permission, from Bull. 45 of the R. I. Exp. Sta. 



