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cipal ornament for some weeks. Okra, to¬ 
matoes, Lima beans, &c., have lost their no¬ 
velty weeks ago. Plums all gone. Peaches, 
melons, apples, pears, grapes, and figs, now 
in perfection; the last certainly the greatest 
luxury in the fruit line I ever partook of. 
We are indebted to Mr. John Harland, of 
Guelph, XJ. C., for his letter of the 8th July. 
Of course we shall feel obliged by the por¬ 
trait of his fine prize-boar, Wamba, accom¬ 
panied with a description of the improved 
Yorkshire breed of Swine. For the present, 
Mr. H. says that Wamba weighs about 550 
pounds, in good working condition, with fine 
skin, hair, &c. He took the first premium 
at the Agricultural show, in the Wellington 
District, last October. We shall take great 
pleasure in looking at him, in our contem¬ 
plated tour north, as well as the fine Short- 
Horns, Leicester and South Devon sheep that 
he speaks of. 
Mr. Stevenson, late editor of the Kentucky 
Farmer, has been deterred by ill-health from 
making us any communication. When shall 
we hear from Robert W. Scott, Esq., Colonel 
Williams, and many others 1 
Mr. S. W. Jewett’s description of sheep is 
received, with five specimens of Merino 
wool, and the portrait of his Paular buck, 
which sheared 14? lbs. wool in June last. We 
shall give it in our next. 
LADIES DEPARTMENT. 
For the American Agriculturist. 
The Cultivation and Uses of the Raspberry. 
There is but one variety we believe of this beautiful 
shrub, which is not useful for the table, and this, the 
(Rubus odoratus) or rose-flowering raspbery, deserves 
cultivation in a favorable soil for its beauty, and we 
think, though we have never seen it cultivated, it would 
form a very ornamental appendage to the arbours and 
terraces of our flower gardens and grounds. It loves a 
moist and mountainous region, and jutting out, as we 
have seen it, by the side of a clear, welling stream, from 
the deep fissures of some lofty rock, or overhanging the 
flower-mantled precipice, with its rich, red petals and 
moss covered calyx, itself the brightest gem of the grace¬ 
ful coronet, we have thought this luxuriant plant 
scarcely to be surpassed in attractiveness. But our pre¬ 
sent subject has a reference more to the gratification of 
the palate than to the charming of the eye. 
Much attention is now given to the cultivation of the 
Raspberry, and the numerous varieties of this agreeable 
fruit which have been constantly increasing and im¬ 
proving, give evidence that its culture well repays the 
trouble. Among these, we would specify particularly, 
the Ohio Ever-bearing Raspberry, which we believe 
ranks first; the Red, and Yellow or White Ant¬ 
werp; the Purple Garden Raspberry (R. Ideus); the 
Grape Raspberry, which was raised some years ago 
from the seed of an imported plant, by a gentleman of 
Charlestown, Mass., and is a very large fine variety, 
but little known, bearing profuselv, and resembling the 
Barnet; another fine variety, the Smooth Cane, or dou¬ 
ble bearing; the White American, (too much ne¬ 
glected) ; the common Red, and the Black American, 
or wild Raspberry, (R. occidental^). Of the Ever- 
bearing, you have already spoken in a previous num¬ 
ber, but what little information I have been able to 
glean respecting it may not be uninteresting, in this 
connection, to some of your readers. As your corres¬ 
pondent has there remarked, it was “ first discovered 
fifteen years since in the northern part of Ohio, near 
Lake Erie,” and by the lovers of this fine fruit, it is con¬ 
sidered superior to any other variety, being larger, 
bearing earlier, and having a superior flavor, with this 
peculiar advantage, that, after the usual season of bear¬ 
ing on the wood of the previous year, the young shoots 
begin to bear successively, affording thus a supply of 
fruit till vegetation is checked by the chilling frosts of 
autumn. The fruit, Mr. Carpenter remarks, is not un¬ 
like u the wild Black Raspberry, but larger, and of finer 
flavor.” It is also longer and of a dark purple, which 
at first induced some to fancy it a variety of the Purple 
Garden Raspberry, as also from its character of self¬ 
propagation from the shoots when low enough, turning 
into the ground. By many, familiar with both the Ever- 
bearing and the Antwerp, who do not approve the pe¬ 
culiar flavor of the latter, the former is judged prefera¬ 
ble. Except by the Shakers of Warren Co. Ohio, and 
their brethren at Warrenville, near Cleveland, and by 
Mr. Longworth of Cincinnati, and a few other western 
gentlemen, we fear it has as yet been little appreciated, 
although our own experience has proved the Purple 
Garden Raspberry, if indeed it be not a variety of the 
same, to possess many of its descriptive traits. This, 
the (R. Ideus,) is a late bearer, continuing in blossom 
and fruit until the last of autumn, having no suckers, 
but propagating itself when bending close to the ground, 
although it is judicious to assist nature by selecting the 
more vigorous shoots and inserting them into a hole 
made for the purpose, and then pressing the earth gently 
around them. It is also remarked of the Ever-bearing 
Raspberry, that the second crop is superior to the first, 
and certainly with all its other advantages, it is singular 
that it should have been entirely overlooked by bota¬ 
nists, conspicuous as it is, moreover, for its large white 
flowers, which appear in clusters on the same shrub, 
already drooping with its luxuriant harvest of luscious 
fruit. We hope our eastern horticulturists will think 
'this variety worthy of their attention, if as yet it has re¬ 
ceived no notice from them. The common wild Red 
Raspberry we have cultivated to some extent, and though 
we have not found the delicious flavor of this fruit in 
its native state, materially increased by cultivation, yet 
we have observed it continues in bearing much later 
than its compeers of the fields and woods. From a do¬ 
zen three year old plants, we have for as many years, 
gathered at least a pint every day or two, till late in Oc¬ 
tober, after the harvest season had gone by. We cannot 
say much, ’tis true, for the flavor of the very late ones, 
partaking as they do, too much of the tart, but we have 
thought in a warmer climate, away from the lakes, say in 
the interior of the state, every variety of the native rasp¬ 
berry might, with proper care, be improved, and possess 
perhaps, with cultivation, this same property of bearing 
late. We are advocates however, in all things, for giv¬ 
ing our labor first to that which profiteth most, and 
therefore, when they can be procured, we would recom¬ 
mend the cultivation first of the most productive and 
valuable varieties; the native fruits always being a 
commodity of the market, and indeed their place is 
