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riety introduced. The originator's account of this, 

 together with directions for its management, were 

 given in Purdy's Fruit Recorder for 1875, p. 182. 

 It does not appear to have become very generally 

 known at that time, for in 1879 the editor of "The 

 Gardener's Monthly" writes,* "Of true dewberries, no 

 improved kinds are known under culture." In a pre- 

 vious number of the same volume, however, N. H. 

 Lindsay, of Bridgeport, Conn., is reported as having 

 cultivated two kinds of wild dewberries in a small 

 way for home use, taking plants from the woods. 

 It seems that even he did not know how to propa- 

 gate them, although a nurseryman and presumably an 

 experienced propagator. 



Even as late as 1884 the editor of "The Country Gen- 

 tleman" says (page 329) : "We are not aware that the 

 dewberry (or running brier) is cultivated for sale by 

 any nurseryman. * * * The wild dewberry is often 

 found along neglected fence -rows or in rocky or sterile 

 fields, from which, if desired, it may be transplanted 

 to gardens, and treated like garden raspberries." These 

 statements serve to show how recent is the cultivation 

 of the dewberry in anything like a commercial extent. 

 It was not until the introduction of the Lucretia, which 

 was brought into general notice about 1886, that the 

 dewberry began to occupy any prominent place in 

 American horticulture. 



So much for the history of the dewberry. But what 

 of its future? Is there a place for it among our garden 



*Gardener 1 s Monthly, Vol. 21, p. 150. See Bailey, Bui. 34, Cornell Exp. Sta., 

 for a sketch of dewberry history. 



