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 J. P. Gushing, Esq., of Watertown, Massa- 

 chusetts. 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 Octo- 

 ber, and not unfrequently 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 on the 19th of November a branch, with 

 ripe fruit on it, was cut off and exhibited at the meeting of the Pennsylvania Horticultural 

 Society. 



