1 82 Success with Small Fruits. 



I have a few canes of a French variety, that Mr. Downing imported a 

 number of years since, and of which the name has been lost It certainly 

 is the finest raspberry I have ever seen, and I am testing its adaptation to 

 various soils. 



Having named the best-known foreign varieties, I will now turn to R. 

 Strigosus, or our native species, which is scattered almost everywhere 

 throughout the North. In its favorite haunts by road-side hedge and open 

 glade in the forest, a bush is occasionally found producing such fine fruit 

 that the delighted discoverer marks it, and in the autumn transfers it to his 

 garden. As a result, a new variety is often heralded throughout the land. 

 A few of these wildings have become widely popular, and among them the 

 Brandywine probably has had the most noted career. 



Mr. William Parry, of New Jersey, who has been largely interested in 

 this variety, writes to me as follows : 



" I have never been able to trace the origin of this berry. It attracted attention 

 some eight or ten years since in the Wilmington market, and was for a time called 

 the ' Wilmington.' " 



Subsequently, Mr. Edward Tatnall, of that city, undertook to introduce 

 it by the name of Susqueco, the Indian name for the Brandywine. It soon 

 became the principal raspberry grown along the Brandywine Creek, and, 

 as the market-men would persist in calling it after its chief haunt, it will 

 probably bear the historical name until it passes wholly out of favor. Its 

 popularity is already on the wane, because of its dry texture and insipid 

 flavor, but its bright color, good size, and especially its firmness and remark- 

 able carrying qualities, will ever lead to its ready sale in the market. It is 

 not a tall, vigorous grower, except in very rich land. The young canes are 

 usually small, slender, of a pale red color, and have but few spines. Like 

 nearly all the R. Strigosus species, it tends to sucker immoderately. If 

 this disposition is rigorously checked by hoe and cultivator it is productive; 

 otherwise the bearing canes are choked and rendered Comparatively 

 unfruitful. This variety is waning before the Cuthbert a larger and much 

 better berry. 



The Turner is another of this class, and, in Mr. Charles Downing's 

 opinion, is the best of them. It was introduced by Professor J. B. Turner, 

 of Illinois, and is a great favorite in many parts of the West. It has behaved 

 well on my place for several years, and I am steadily increasing my stock 

 of it. I regard it as the hardiest raspberry in cultivation, and a winter 

 must be severe, indeed, that injures it. Like the Crescent Seedling straw- 



