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raents in regard to its quality. The members who have seen the 

 fruit in former years will observe that the quality is unimpaired, 

 and as no plants of this variety are found growing wild in New- 

 Rochelle or any other part of the country, I shall preserve with 

 the greatest care the original stock, believing it too valuable to 

 hazard the introduction of seedlings or any other variety near 

 them. I design enlarging my plantation by several additional 

 acres, so as to furnish an extensive supply at reduced rates, and 

 shall have, the ensuing season, twenty thousand plants for sale at 

 $25 a hundred, or $5 for a package of one dozen. The cultiva- 

 tion of this fruit will no doubt give ample returns to those 

 w^ho reside near large towns. Fruit dealers purchase readily all 

 I can supply, at the rate of one dollar a gallon, deliverable in 

 pint and quart baskets like those before you, and when in season 

 they can be seen and purchased at Mr. Taylor's Saloon in Broad- 

 way. My grounds are near to the village of the New- York and 

 New-Haven railroad, in the village of New-Kochelle, and open 

 to visitors at any time. 



THE LAWTON BLACKBERRY. 



Professor Mapes said he had bought some of the plants, and 

 was told that if he went into the swamps and selected some 

 blackberry plants, he could find some that by cultivation Avould 

 be as fine as the Lawton berry. He did not believe it, but tried 

 it, and found it was not so. They were entirely distinct from the 

 Lawton berry. 



Mr. J. P. Swain of Bronxville, said he had found the fruit 

 growing wild along the Bronxville river. Water or wet land 

 was essential to the full growth and perfection of the fruit. He 

 had conversed with persons who had picked the berries thirty- 

 eight years ago, and found thirteen berries to fill a pint measure. 

 He said, there are plants now growing wild which far exceed any 

 of those cultivated. They can be found near the mill of Mr- 

 Lawrence Underbill and elsewhere. 



Some discussion here arose on the propriety of the name, as it 

 was suggested that others besides Mr. Lawton had produced as 

 fine blackberries. 



Professor Mapes said there never was a new thing yet but after 

 it had succeeded there w^ere many to claim the honor of having 

 originated it. It is the man who prosecutes an invention so as to 

 make it available to the uses of the people who deserves the 



