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Cincinnati, soon after. From the large bunches of fruit 

 we should regard it as of value to collections, though we 

 consider it better adapted to the amateur, than for general 

 cultivation. It is certainly vigorous and very productive, 

 and we believe hardj^ It bears abundantly through the 

 season, after the young wood, on which it produces its 

 best fruit, attains a hight of four or five feet. The fruit 

 is produced from branches continually pushing out from 

 all parts, and successively appearing at various stages of 

 growth, from the blossom to perfect maturity, like the 

 Ohio ; but of course its bearing depends very much 

 on favorable (rather moist) seasons. A well-trenched, 

 rich soil is very desirable to guard against the eflfects of 

 drouth. Mulching with straw is also of much benefit at 

 that particular time. This plant was discovered in a lit- 

 tle grave-yard near the Quaker meeting-house, in the 

 village of Catawissa, Columbia county. Pa., by a mower, 

 who, seeing the quantity and quality of the fruit, spared 

 and preserved it. 



KIETLAND. This is a new kind, sent to the author 

 from D. C. Eichmond's Nursery, near Sandusky, with the 

 highest recommendation and encomiums for its qualities 

 and value as a market fruit. Its entire hardiness, as well 

 as the excellence and firmness of the fruit, as it is stated, 

 being a part of its great value and promise. 



It ought to be noticed here, and impressed on the minds 

 of cultivators, that all the very fine kinds of raspberries, 

 both old and new, with but few exceptions, are too tender 

 for our climate, in the West ; and they therefore require 

 a covering of some kind, during Winter ; a process that 

 will well repay the trouble. The canes may be tied to 

 stakes, and covered with straw ; or they may be laid down 

 in Autumn, and covered with a few inches of earth, leaves, 



