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The Franconia Raspberry has proved itself to be quite 

 hardy (p. 332 of the last volume). This will give new 

 value to this already celebrated variety, which, though well 

 known around Boston, is yet rare in the vicinity of New 

 York and Philadelphia. The Ohio ever-bearing Raspberry, 

 of which considerable has been said in our previous vol- 

 umes, has fruited with us, and we can recommend it as a 

 valuable variety for general cuhivation, and particularly 

 for its ever-bearing qualities. Fruit was produced from 

 June until frost. It more properly belongs, however, to the 

 class of thimbleberries than that of the raspberry. 



New fruits, particularly of native origin, appear to be on 

 the increase. At the weekly exhibitions of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society, several new varieties of pears, 

 apples and grapes have been presented, and some of them 

 of much merit. Among the pears may be named the 

 Lawrence, from Flushing, Long Island, and the Hull, 

 (IX. p. 432) from Somerset, Mass., both superior varie- 

 ties. Others of secondary quality have been exhibited. 

 The Diana grape, a seedling from the Catawba, promises 

 to be a very early and excellent variety ; it has something 

 of the appearance of the parent, but is lighter colored. A 

 variety of seedling apples have been exhibited, for the par- 

 ticulars of which we must refer to the reports of the society 

 during the year. 



From the reports of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society 

 there are a great number of apples, natives of the west, 

 which appear to be valuable varieties ; some of these have 

 been alluded to by the Rev. Mr. Beecher, in his excellent 

 article in our last volume (p. 81). He mentions three va- 

 rieties as very superior. Mr. Ernst, of Cincinnati, has de- 

 scribed the Broadwell apple in the same volume, (p. 51,) 

 which we think the finest sweet one we ever tasted. 



The committee on synonyms of fruits of the above soci- 

 ety, have reported upon several varieties of native apples, 

 presented for exhibition : and we shall take an early oppor- 

 tunity to give some account of them. The seedling straw- 

 berry raised by Mr. Mottier, of Cincinnati, is said to be a 

 very large and fine variety. The Stone pear, described 

 and figured in our last volume (p. 24) by Mr. Ernst, has 

 been introduced into the vicinity of Boston, but its merits 

 remain yet to be tested. 



Some varieties of foreign pears have fruited the past year 



