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raspberry. The seventh has large, wrinkled leaflets, 

 borne on two stems 2% feet high. The stems are 

 light green on one side, light purple on the other, 

 Priekles many and long, but slender and soft. Very 

 little bloom under the leaves. A vigorous plant. The 

 eighth has leaves resembling the blackberry, and with- 

 out bloom. There were several pedate leaves. Prick- 

 les hooked, crowded and stiff. It is very branching, 

 and 2% feet high. Looks like a blackberry. The 

 ninth is but 9 inches high, though healthy. It resem- 

 bles the blackberry, except that the thorns are crowded 

 and there are no pedate leaves." — February is, />>>. 



"In one box we have seeds of the raspberry crossed 

 with the blackberry; in another, seeds of the black- 

 berry crossed with the raspberry." — August J 1,1886. 



"Both the raspberry and blackberry buds were 

 opened and the anthers removed while green. Pollen 

 from each was applied to the other, and carefully 

 wrapped up in tissue paper, to prevent contact of pol- 

 len from bees or wind. About fifteen berries formed 

 from this hybridization, three -fourths on the rasp- 

 berry and the remainder on the blackberry. The 

 seeds of the raspberry have already been sown, and 

 those of the blackberries are to be planted when 

 ripe."— September n, 1886.— By Firm Ed. World, 



"Three of these plants have fruited the present 

 season. The first is, to all appearances, a raspberry. 

 The plant is very vigorous, the leaves very large, the 

 canes nearly thornless, the berries yellow, of medium 

 size, rather soft and of the quality of the Caroline. 

 Imperfect berries were noticed here and there. The 

 second bears a red berry of the same color, size and 

 quality of the Bansell. Some of these berries were 



