DR. BRINCKLE 



and then a patient investigator was working onl new 

 problems and securing new varieties. The bud of a 

 new type of agriculture was slowly developing. We 

 qow foresee the full bloom.* 



Among the earliest American experimenters with 

 raspberries was Dr. William D. Brinckle\ of Philadel- 

 phia, "a busy physician, who." as Professor Card 

 writes, "having a taste for pomology, pursued it as a 

 means of recreation from other duties. He experi- 

 mented with strawberries and pears, as well as with 

 raspberries. So important was his work in these 

 lines that he seems to be much better remembered for 

 that than tor his medical reputation, although la- was 

 successful and prominent in this field also. He was 

 president of the American Pomological Society at its 

 Becond -'--ion. and tor manj years vice-president of 

 tin- Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, repeatedly 

 refusing its presidency. Unfortunately, his work on 

 raspberries was with tli-' Rubus I<l<rns species, ami 

 most of the varieties which he produced have suffered 

 the fate of th>- class t<» which they belong; yet he 

 obtained in Brinckle's Orange the varietj which has 

 Btood ;is the desideratum to be Bought in quality to 

 tin- present day." This variety has the following his- 

 tory, to quote Dr. Brinckle* himself: "It originated 

 fro,,, a Beed of Dyark's Seedling, 

 a large English crimson variety, imported bj Mr. 

 Robert Buist, of Philadelphia. The Beed was planted 

 Jul) i:ith. 1843, vegetated in the spring of 1844, 

 fruited in 1*l.~>. and described in the 'Horticulturist' 



Hull, 111. U 



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