THE CHASK NUKSEIRIES. 
REPORT OF CROP MARKETED IN 1882. 
From ten acres on the grounds of the originator were sold 26,274 pints of ber- 
ries, which, after deducting freight, cartage and commission, returned $1,814.06. 
These figures seem scarcely to need any apology, yet it is but just to the berry 
to state — First: all the plants standj^xposed on soil not particularly suited to 
grow raspberries. Second: of over three-quarters of the plantation it was the first 
years of fruiling. Third: they were grown without man ure and without culture, 
the ground being permitted to remain undisturbed to allow all tlic young plants 
to grow — which, as all fruit growers know, draws heavily upon the fruiting canes. 
Fourth : on Monday, Jul}' 3, it stormed, preventing picking, and as pickers could 
not be secured on the 4th of July, no picking could be performed from Friday, 
June 30, to Wednesday, July 5, whereby nearly the whole of one picking was 
lost — besides, several crates were sold to grpcerymen in the neighboring village 
and persons calling at the farm, the receipts of which were omitted from the 
above report. 
REPORT OP SHIPPER, WHO SOLD THE FRUIT. 
Beverly, N. J., January 1, 1883. 
Dear Sirs: — Yours of December 19, received. In reply would state that I 
have handled the "llansell" ever since it originated — especially the season of 1883, 
shipping as high as 9000 pints per week. Shipped principally to New York and 
Newark markets, a distance of nearly 90 miles by rail, but have shipped them as 
far as'Worcester, Mass., by rail, a distance of 300 miles. It always arrived in 
prime condition and brought the highest market price. [The Italics are his.] The 
past season the first shipment brought 20 cents per pint, wholesale, and during 
the whole season it run from 2 to 4 cents higher than any other raspberry I ship- 
ped. It is at least ten days ahead of any other berry that I ship; it has the ad- 
Tantage also of ripening in large quantities at once, thereby enabling the grower 
to get the bulk of his crop off before the market gets glutted. So far as my know- 
ledge extends it is the best beriy for grower and shipper. I have been handling 
raspberries for the past ten years or more, in large quantities, in some cases by 
carloads. 
Yours respectfully, 
E. R. VANSCIVER. 
The history of the Hansell is not without interest. Some eight years ago, it 
was noticed growing among weeds and grass, by the side of a barn in Burling- 
ton Count}', New Jersey, a spot so unfavorable for a raspberry, that only a variety 
-of great inherent vigor could live there. Here it remained for two years, where, 
in the meantime, it was eaten down by a cow tied near by. By rare good fortune 
(for it was purely by chance) it escaped being dug up in clearing the ground of 
Elders and other "trash." After a time, a branch attained sufficient age to bear 
fruit. These first few berries, in their half-buried -alive position, were so fine as 
to attract the attention of tlie owner of the property — the late J, S, Ilanscl!, a 
practical and eminently successful fruit grower. On being transferred to the field, 
it proved so signally fine and profitable, that Mr. H. set about increasing and 
planting it, as rapidly as practicable, until at the time of his death (in 1881) he 
had ten acres of it growinsr, while his successors continued to plant more. The 
name, which is synonymous with justice in the region where he formerly lived, 
is given the seedling, as peculiarly appropriate, to commemorate the name of a 
good and estimable gentlemen well worthy ofeniulatlou. The Araerican Garden. 
