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other fruits, we are far from attaining perfection. 

 We have do ideal variety. K we demand the best in 

 point of hardiness, we mnsl yield in size and quality; 

 if delicacy of flavor La the desideratum, something else 

 will be deficient. Yel t « » stand by a well-grown row 

 of Marly Cluster, for example, to see its glistening 

 sprays of glossy black hanging in such graceful pro- 

 fusion, to gather its magnincenl berries and to tesl 

 their sweel and melting quality, just Like those lim^t 

 and ripesi ones you used now and then t<> chance 

 upon in some wooded nook which everybody else had 

 missed, is to forget for the time being thai there is 

 anything further to be desired in a blackberry. Still, 

 we have reason to hope that the achievements of this 

 energetic and vigorous pomological youth are hut an 

 omen of what is yel to come." 



The blackberry is not mentioned by William Prince 

 in his "Treatise on Borticulture," published in 1828, 

 nor in his son's "Pomological Manual." either in the 

 flrel edition, L831, or in the Becond, L832. Kenrick, 

 in "New American Orchardist," L833, mentions the 

 blackberry as being worthy of cultivation, and remarks 

 that plants were then occasionally transplanted to gar- 

 dens. Speaking of the wild "bush blackberry," h<- 

 Bays: "This plant thrives in a rich, moist. Bandy 

 loam, and is often cultivated in gardens, where its 

 fruit is much improved in size, and it- crops very 

 abundant." "It is singular," he Bays, "thai a fruit so 

 productive as the tall blackberry Bhould be bo little 

 cultivated." Be also speaks of the "trailing black- 

 berry," and the "white -fruited bramble." William 

 Parry, of New Jersey, says thai aboul 1835 he 

 "planted i patch of blackberries for market, and 



