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pulp, quite unlike the common blackberry. Their shape is more 

 like the dewberry or low running blackberry. 



They will continue in bearing all through August and till the 

 middle of September. The demand for these berries is greater 

 than can be supplied at 37| cents a quart, from about an acre and 

 a half of Mr. Lawton's vines, and all that are raised by others. 

 They are just now in full bearing. This new blackberiy is an ac- 

 cidental seedling, discovered a few years ago at New-Rochellc, 

 about twenty miles out of New- York, on the New-Haven railroad. 

 Its remarkable appearance induced Mr. Law ton to take pains to 

 cultivate and propagate the plants. In addition to his own, he 

 has sold a good many roots, so that it is likely soon to become 

 pretty generally diffused. Mr. Lawton ^ys that his grow upon 

 a rather moist rich piece of ground, and the berries acquire the 

 largest size under the apple trees. [This may be, but their flavor 

 is not as good, we are satisfied, as when grown in the sun.] 



The propagation is by ofl-shoots, each root producing several, 

 and only one or two retained for bearers next season. All the 

 old wood must be cut away, as the same shoot never fruits but 

 once. In setting a plantation of these berries, Mr. Lawton recom- 

 mends that the rows should be twelve feet apart. 



Judge Van Wyck proposed the following resolution on the oc- 

 casion, which was unanimously adopted : 



Resolved, That the Farmers' Club of the American Institute 

 highly approve of the efforts made by William Lawton, Esq., of 

 New-Rochelle, to cultivate, improve, and spread, that most valu- 

 able blackberry spoken of to-day ; and that he has presented to 

 this Club at different periods, both this season and the last, most 

 liberal specimens of this blackberry, so that every member (and 

 they sometimes number nearly fifty) could not only gratify his 

 sight, but his palate, with eating as many as he pleased, and thus 

 be qualified to judge, in every stage and season of their growth, 

 their superior qualities as regards size, flavor, and succulency, 

 and also their constant improvement each year under his manage- 

 ment ; and that we do hereby earnestly and decidedly recommend 



