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and in \ talil<- is supplied from the beginning of June 

 till frost. 



"By means of heat, under glass, it might be made 

 to bear well through the winter. The first of June it 

 produces a most abundant crop, about ten days earlier 

 than any other variety. The wood producing that 

 crop dies through the early part of the summer, and 

 the second shoots begin to ripen fruit before the crop 

 on the old wood is over, and continue to bear till 

 frost, and then produce the June crop <>t' the follow- 

 ing Beason. The fruit is black, of good size, and is 

 preferred by a majority of persons at my table to the 

 Antwerp. The vine is a native of the northern part 

 of our Btate, where the summers are nor as dry and 

 warm a> at our city, and they have a substratum of 

 day. In my garden the substratum is gravel, ami 

 oui- summers an- dry and hot. Prom these cans 

 does not bear ;i- well with me through the heat of 

 the Bummer ;i- it does in its native region, and will 



do in a >ler and moister climate. I sent some to my 



Bister, nine miles from New York, where tin- substra- 

 tum is elay, and the climate cooler and less Bubject 

 to drought. With her it produces double the fruit in 

 the heat of summer that it does with me. Prom these 



a I have believed it would bear most abundantly 

 in mosl parts of Great Britain. It does not increase by 



-. ,is other raspberries do. but in September ami 

 October the shoots descend to the ground, ami each 



as it Btrikes the earth, throws out Bis or seven 

 small -hoot-, that immediate!} take root and throw up 

 shoot-. I gay it is a native, because I have never 

 -'•'■n or heard of it excepl the few plants in a par- 

 ticular locatiou where I found it in 1832. It has 



