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all others, and my table is supplied from the beginning of June 

 till frost. 



By means of heat, under glass, it might be made to bear well 

 through the winter. The first of June it produces a most 

 abundant crop, about ten days earlier than any other variety. 

 The wood producing that crop dies through the early part of 

 the summer, and the second shoots begin to ripen fruit before 

 the crop on the old wood is over, and continue to bear till frost, 

 and then produce the June crop of the following season. The 

 fruit is black, of good size, and is preferred by a majority of 

 persons at my table to the Antwerp. The vine is a native of the 

 northern part of our state, where the summers are not as dry 

 and warm as at our city, and they have a substratum of clay. In 

 my garden the substratum is gravel, and our summers are dry and 

 hot. From these causes it does not bear as well with me through 

 the heat of the summer as it does in its native region, and will 

 do in a cooler and moister climate. I sent some to my sister, 

 9 miles from New York, where the substratum is clay, and the 

 climate cooler and less subject to drought. With her it produces 

 double the fruit in the heat of summer that it does with me. 

 From these causes I have believed it would bear most abun- 

 dantly in most parts of Great Britain. It does not increase by 

 offsets as other raspberries do, but in September and October the 

 shoots descend to the ground, and each one as it strikes the earth 

 throws out six or seven small shoots, that immediately take root 

 and throw up shoots. I say it is a native, because I have never 

 seen or heard of it except the few plants in a particular location 

 where I found it in 1832. It has not yet been offered for sale, 

 except a few plants by Mr. Howarth, who now contemplates 

 taking his entire stock to England. It is unknown out of this 

 vicinity, and there is but one person who has more than a iew 

 plants, as there have been none for sale. Our seasons have been 

 dry of late years, and, anxious to supply my own garden, I could 

 spare none, except a plant to a particular friend. All beyond 

 what are wanted in my garden, my gardener furnished to Mr. 

 Howarth. The vine is very hardy, is not killed by frost, is of 

 rapid and vigorous growth, and requires no particular cultivation, 

 except that, from its vigorous growth, it should have a higher 

 trellis than the Antwerp. I have given Mr. Howarth a few 

 bottles of wine made at my own vineyards, the pure juice of an 

 American grape, for distribution among the English horticultu- 

 rists ; it is two years old only. 

 Cincinnati^ Ohio, Sept. 30. 1 84-1. 



Memorandum.. — From long and intimate acquaintance with N. Lono worth 

 Esq., one of the wealthiest, most intelligent, and enterprising citizens of Cin- 

 cinnati, and at the request of Mr. Howarth, I feel happy in expressing my 

 perfect assent to what has been stated above, on which the most perfect reliance 



