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and adapted to a wide range of country, ought to greatly advance 

 his own fortunes, and certainly will confer a benefit on the public 

 at large. 



The Hudson River Antwerp has been regarded as the type 

 of excellence, and, as it once grew, it has not been equalled by 

 anything that I have yet seen. But even in its palmy days it 

 flourished only in a limited locality on the western bank of the 

 Hudson River. Immediately opposite, on the eastern shore, it 

 could not be grown with profit. Even in its favorite haunts it 

 has, of late years, failed greatly, though by some it is now 

 thought to be recovering something of its old vigor, ^under high 

 culture and upon new land. As it is such a splendid variety, the 

 fruit always commanding the highest prices, I have set it out 

 quite largely, intending to try wood ashes as a fertilizer. 



I have a seedUng, which much resembles the H. R. Antwerp 

 in its fruit, from which I am hoping great things. But the plnnt 

 itself is very different. It originated by chance, in an old gar- 

 den in the city of Newburgh, N. Y. A fuller description of the 

 locality will be given hereafter. Its roots were intertwined with 

 those of an old grape vine and currant bush, and it has never had 

 half a chance. But it produced such fine fruit as to attract much 

 notice, and my cousin, Mr. T. Hazard Roe, was induced to mark 

 and leave it for future observation. During the summer of 1874 

 it made a vigorous growth without any extra stimulus whatever, 

 one of the canes attaining the length of fourteen feet. It received 

 no protection at all throughout the very severe winter of '74-5, the 

 canes merely being left upon the grape arbor. Its appearance 

 during the fruiting season of 1875 is thus described by Mr. Ben- 

 sel, editor of the " Home, Farm and Orchard'' who carefully exam- 

 ined into the merits of this new candidate, and says : " Two or 

 three years ago a raspberry plant sprang up in the garden of Mr. 

 T. Hazard Roe, in this city, which was permitted to grow as a 

 matter of curiosity and because it insisted upon growing. The 

 seedling was not laid down nor otherwise protected during the 

 winter, but each year increased the number of shoots, which 

 bore fruit to the tips. The present season it is a most vigorous 



