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whether a certain variety which may give excellent 

 results in some other region of the country, is likely 

 to do the same under his conditions. While the 

 succeeding lists are as full as it has been possible 

 to make them by a careful search through the litera- 

 ture available, there are doubtless many omissions. 

 Any additions or corrections which others can make 

 will be gladly welcomed by the author. 



The varieties in this historical record are arranged 

 alphabetically under five heads: 

 I. Black raspberries. 

 II. Pur pie -cane raspberries. 



III. American -type red raspberries. 



IV. European -type red raspberries, 

 V. Unclassified varieties. 



I. BLACK EASPBEERIES 



Rubus occidentalis 



Although the youngest group of raspberries in cul- 

 tivation, this has come to be the most important one. 

 Immense strides have been made since Nicholas Long- 

 worth first transferred the Ohio Everbearing to his door- 

 yard in 1832. The species adapts itself so readily to 

 cultivation, and is so uniformly hardy and productive, 

 ripening its fruit in a comparatively short space of 

 time, and withal is so good to eat, that the wonder is 

 not so much that .it has gained in popularity so rapidly, 

 but that it did not come into cultivation sooner. Its 

 adaptability to being grown as a farm crop for evap- 



