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be the Baine. The original name of the Bartel was 

 Bartel'8 Mammoth, and it is now often sold under this 

 name, ;in<l sometimes Bartel is omitted. I have written 

 to nurserymen who advertise the Mammoth, ;ui<l all the 

 replies which I have received state thai Bartel, Bartel's 

 Mammoth and Mammoth are the same. It is r common 

 impression among growers and experimenters, however, 

 that the two are distinct, perhaps because tiny were 

 received nnder differenl names. Mr. Lyon, in the 

 Michigan reporl of new Emits, published in L883, 

 says that the "Mammoth is another variety of similar 

 character [t<> Bartel] scarcely more productive. J * i ] »* • 

 August 1." Separate reports <>t' Bartel ami Mammoth 

 are given by the New Y >rk State Experiment Station, 

 ami Professor GroflE speaks of them as differenl in his 

 articles already quoted in "Garden and Forest," 1891. 

 Bui do <>n<'. bo tar a- I can Learn, has pointed <>nt any 

 differences between the two. 



()!!«■ of the replies to my inquiries of nurserymen, 

 from a verj prominenl western firm, i- a- follows: "A- 

 in Mammoth, we verily believe there i> in reality m> 

 specific variety generally distributed ami known under 

 tlii- name. Twenty years ago Dewey, the plate maker, 

 had a plate called '.Mammoth Prolific Dewberry,' ami so 

 l« m jx .• i *_r« » as 1 S T-! we scoured the country over trying to 

 find a few hundred of something ly tlii> name for a 

 customer who had Bold them from the aforesaid plate, 

 bat could not learn of anything of the Kind thin in 

 existence. Since the introduction of Lueretia, a linn 

 in Jackson county, 111., brought out a variety they 

 « - : 1 1 1 < • < 1 Mammoth, ami while we are not absolutely sure, 

 we think it was merelj a wild varietj which the} took 

 tip, propagated, ami ^aw this name. We obtained 



