154 FRUIT GARDEN. 
The Biacxserry is becoming an important fruit in the 
United States. Thousands of bushels are gathered from 
the woods and open lands of our country and brought into 
market. Various attempts have been made to cultivate 
these wild plants, but usually with very indifferent success, 
Capt. Lovett, of Mass., has succeeded with an improved 
variety of raising fine fruit, but a complaint is made that 
they degenerate under other treatment. A new variety 
was discovered some years since at New Rochelle, near 
New York, and brought into notice by Wm. Lawton, Esq., 
of that place, which seems to supply the desideratum. It 
is very large, a great bearer, pulpy, and delicious flavor. It 
loves a cool, moist, shady soil; is easily cultivated, and is 
every where becoming a universal favorite. The Congress 
of Fruit Growers have adopted it. It is called the Law- 
ton, or New Rochelle Blackberry. 
The Strawserry (Fragaria) belongs to the same na- 
tural family as the raspberry. Amongst the numerous 
kinds cultivated in English gardens, botanists have dis- 
tinguished several species, but as these distinctions imply 
no difference in culture, and as it is difficult to trace them 
amid the sportings of the hybrids, we shall not pretend to 
enumerate them. Scarcely any plant morereadily slides into 
seminal varieties; and, indeed, till lately, in consequence 
of the irregular prevalence of local names, their whole 
nomenclature was a chaos of confusion. At the instance 
of the Horticultural Society of London, Mr. Barnet under- 
took a revision of the subject: and, with great acuteness 
and discrimination, has removed much ambiguity, and 
finally settled the names of the existing varieties. His 
paper, which is well worth the perusal of every student of 
horticulture, is in the sixth volume of the London Trans- 
actions. In the second edition of the Catalogue of the 
London Horticultural Society, no fewer than 112 varieties 
are enumerated. But the following are sufficient, and an 
