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NOTES FROM A GARDEN HERBARIUM. 



are from the New York Experiment Station at Geneva, 

 although I once grew them. Mr. Hunn, horticulturist 

 of the station, writes me as follows concerning these 



Fig. 3. Barteli. Dewberry — Rubus Canandensis, 

 var. invi.sos. 



berries : " The Barteli and Mammoth dewberries were 

 received from Frank Ford & Son, Ravenna, O., May 6, 

 1885. The Station report of 1886 says : 'Have made a 

 very vigorous growth of wood and yielded a few fruits. 

 They appear to be of little value in this locality.' Re- 

 port of 1887 : 'There appears to be no difference be- 

 tween these ; both have a very vigorous growth of new 

 wood, many of the branches being from ten to fifteen 

 feet in length. A few fruits were produced, some of 

 which were very large. The fruits were sour and of 

 poor flavor.' In 1888 : 'These varieties were removed, 

 in consequence of which they have not been reported 



on.' This year they gave considerable fruit, but of poor 

 quality and extremely difficult to harvest. I am of the 

 opinion that they are of but little value grown as run- 

 ning plants, but if grown on a trellis they are more fruit- 

 ful and of better flavor, as the sun would have a tendency 

 to make them sweeter. I have cut back the canes we 

 have to within four feet, and shall try them on wires 

 another season. ^We received this spring of C. P. 

 Bauer, Judsonia, Ark., a variety said to be found wild 

 in that section, which he says is very productive, fine 

 flavor and very vigorous, running to the length of forty 

 feet in one season (not a very desirable quality, I im- 

 agine). 



Mr. Hunn has sent me a specimen of the Bauer va- 

 riety, and it is Rulnis trivialis, a species which has not 

 been cultivated before, so far as I know. 



To recapitulate : our rubuses grown for fruit, as out- 

 lined in these three papers, appear to be as follows : 

 L Dewberries — 



Lucretia's Sister, Rubus Canadensis, Linn. 

 Lucretia, Rulnis Canadensis, var. roribaccus. 



Barteli, } j, , r 1 ■ 



,- Auous Lanaaensis, var. invisiis. 

 Mammoth. ) 



Bauer, Rubus /ri'nalis, Michx. 

 H. Blackberries — 



The large thick-fruited blackberries, Rubus 



villosus, Aiton, var. saiivus. 

 Early Harvest, Rubus villosus, var. frondosiis, 

 Torrey. 



White Blackberry, Rubus villosus, var. allmius 

 IH. Raspberries — 



Fontenay, and its kin, Kubus Idcvus, Linn. 

 Cuthbert, Rubus strigosus, Michx. 



Shaffer, 

 Caroline, 

 Philadelphia, 

 Reliance, 



and others. 

 Gregg, 

 Hilborn, 

 Ada, 

 Ohio, 



and others. 



Rubus negleittis. Peck. 



Rubus occideiitalis. Linn. 



L. H. Bailey 



