BE8UME J'.'". 



Th<- salient points in our raspberry history, then, 

 are these: The old World berry was early introduced 

 and widely tested, but it proved to 1"- tender, and is 

 now known in this country only in the gardens of 

 amateurs. The varieties which we now grow are ;ill 

 derived from our native species. Tin* first of these 

 native berries to be domesticated appears to have been 

 a natural hybrid between the wild black ami the wil<l 



red, an<l to hav >m<' into cultivation about 1825. 



Thi- hybrid <-la->. which - be the most \ romis 



ing type of American berries, was not recognized as 

 t iiK-t until Puller denned his purple-cane group in 

 in [869, Peck founded a new species <>t' rubus "ii 

 it. calling it Rubus neglectus; in 1890 tin- purple-cane 

 raspberries and Rubus neglectus were determined to be 

 of similar type ami origin. The first direct effort at 

 improving tin- native berry was tin* introduction of a 

 promising wild Ohio berry in 1832 by Nicholas Long- 

 worth, and this berry subsequently came to be known 

 as Ohio E erbearing. The chief merit of this firsl 

 cultivated black-cap, in the • minators, 



was its habit <>t' bearing a Becond crop of fruit in tin- 

 fall, a feature which i> bj no means uncommon in the 

 black raspberries. This <>hio i< probably no lo 

 cultivated, hut there i- another Ohio raspberry, of later 

 origin, which i- widely grown. The general influence 

 <>f amelioration in enlarging the fruit and condensing 

 tin- cluster i< >hown in Fig. 55. The Gregg i- a fair 

 example of the improved black-cap, although a recent 

 variety has broughl the size of individual berries to an 

 inch in length and three inches in circumference at 

 tin- base. The domestication of the true wild red 

 ■ n\ began shortlj before I860 But th<- red 



