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SMALL PKUIT CULTURIST. 



hand-gathering, and the smaller ones can usually be 

 driven off by dusting the plants with lime. 



DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. 

 NATIVE SPECIES AND VARIETIES. 



Class I. — The Black Caps {Ruhus Occident alis), 



American Black. {Blade Raspberries, Blach Cap 

 Rasplerry, Thimhle Berry), — Fruit medium, slightly 

 oval, black with bloom ; sweet pleasant flavor ; there is but 

 little juice, a greater portion of the berry being seeds. 

 The plant roots from the ends of the young canes. In its 

 wild state one of the most variable species kno^vm. Com- 

 mon in all parts of the United States. 



American Wliite Cap, {Yellow Cap, Golden Cap,) — 

 Fruit one-half to five-eighths of an inch broad ; slightly 

 oval; grains larger than in the preceding variety; pale 

 or deep yellow, covered with a white bloom ; sweet. Juicy, 

 rather musky, but agreeable ; canes light yellow, slightly 

 glaucous, very strong, stocky, with a few short spines ; 

 only moderately productive. This variety is also found 

 wild from Maine to the Mississippi Eiver, and probably 

 farther West. I have received it from nearly all the 

 Northern States, and from the southern portion of the 

 State of Delaware. 



American Improved, {Doolittle's Blaclc Cap, Joslyn's 

 Improved, Improved Blaclc Cap Raspberry), — Large, 

 black, with slight bloom ; sweet, juicy, of the same flavor 

 as the Wild Black Easpberry ; canes very vigorous, with 

 numerous strong-hooked prickles. The extremely thorny 

 character of the plant is its greatest fault, as it is equally 

 as disagreeable a subject to work among as the Blackberry. 

 Very productive and hardy. Found growing wild by 

 Leander Joslyn, of Phelps, Ontario County, N. Y. 



