AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Q77 
The Fastolff Raspberry- 
So far as our own experience goes, this is one 
of the best raspberries for home use. It is too 
tender for distant marketing. The berry is of 
large size and excellent flavor, and very prolific. 
We will give an example. Seven plants were set 
four feet apart against a board fence on the west 
side of the garden, late in the Spring of 1856. 
They grew fairly and produced some fruit. The 
thrifty new canes bore well in 1857. Only 
14 new canes, two in a hill, were saved for this 
year. They were trained against the board fence 
by nailing strips of leather around them, and dur¬ 
ing last Summer they were shortened at the top 
to four feet in hight, which induced numerous 
short side shoots. Now for the result. This 
year, in four weeks, we picked from the fourteen 
canes over twenty quarts of superior large berries 
for the table, besides what was eaten in the gar¬ 
den. As these stood close to the fence and are 
trained against it, and no straggling branches 
were allowed, they occupy very little room. 
Indeed, radishes and lettuce were raised on the 
ground around the canes. Here, then, is over 
half a bushel of fine berries produced with almost 
no expense. One dollar will amply cover the 
entire outlay for the original plants and all the 
time spent upon them, and the entire yield has 
been over a bushel of fruit. Comment is unne¬ 
cessary. It should be stated that the soil is a good 
one, was deeply trenched, and it has been well 
enriched, first by a little bone sawings in the hill, 
and afterwards by frequent waterings with sink 
slops. 
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Brinkle’s Orange Raspberry. 
This is an American seedling originated by Dr. 
Brinkle of Philadelphia. The canes are strong 
and hardy, but require Winter protection. The 
fruit is of large size, conical, and varying from 
palish yellow to bright orange in color, and of 
firm flesh and fine flavor. It is a profuse bearer, 
holding and ripening its late berries better than 
most other varieties and is gaining popular favor, 
especially as a market fruit, on account of its fan¬ 
cy color and bearing transportation well. 
The Allen Raspberry. 
Of this we hear favorable reports from various 
quarters. Last Autumn we put out a quantity of 
the plants, side by side with the Red Antwerp. 
They were hastily put into the ground standing 
upright, the canes being cut down to about two 
feet high. They received no protection or atten¬ 
tion of any kind during the Winter. In the 
Spring, every cane showed life to its very top, 
and considerable fruit was produced. So far as 
we could observe, the berries appeared nearly the 
size of the Antwerp growing near. Nor could 
we see much difference in the quality of the fruit, 
though the Allen variety was rather the sweetest. 
Taking into account its perfectly hardy character, 
we think it well worth cultivating. 
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Bagley’s Ever-Bearing Raspberry. 
We received a box of the fruit of this variety 
about the first of August. The berries are of 
moderate size, very good in flavor, and contain 
rather too large a cavity to bear transportation 
well. They are similar to wild varieties we have 
seen. The chief recommendation claimed by 
those who are familiar with them, is their hardy 
character, and continuous bearing. We cannot 
speak further from personal experience or ob¬ 
servation. 
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The New Rochelle Blackberry. 
The great value of this plant is now so well 
established, and has been so frequently set forth 
in the columns of this journal, where its merits 
were first brought before the public, that it would 
seem superfluous for us to add much more. Our 
own canes have borne luxuriantly the present 
year, and so have those of our neighbors, and 
every one we have talked with speaks of it in the 
highest terms. We have not seen or heard of 
any serious injury from winter-kill in this latitude. 
A few of the new canes starting from the ground 
this season, which were not shortened in, are 8 
to 12 feet high, and an inch in diameter at the 
base. We advise keeping down the canes to 
about five feet in hight by clipping the tops, which 
developes a large growth of side fruit spurs for 
next year’s bearing. The berries are of great 
size, well flavored, and the melting pulp contains 
very few seeds. 
We present above an engraving giving the ex¬ 
act size of a berry. This is a large specimen, but 
not exaggerated, for we have handled hundreds 
as large. The average size of the fruit is not far 
from an inch in diameter. 
The yield is so large that a candid statement 
woulxi hardly be credited. Aug. 2d, we made our 
fifth annual call upon Messrs. Geo. Seymour & 
Co., of South Norwalk, Conn., and examined a 
half acre on which the canes are kept in hills 6 
feet asunder, in rows 8 feet apart. Several gen¬ 
tlemen experimented by picking and measuring 
hills of average production, and the amount then 
actually growing upon the half acre was estimated 
at between sixty and seventy bushels, or over 
130 bushels per acre, and this too, where the 
canes were kept so widely apart for the conveni¬ 
ence of visitors. They have between four and five 
acres more where the canes grow more thickly, 
and the product of berries is, of course, much 
greater. The same parties have established a 
plantation of several acres in New Jersey, not 
only for raising plants for sale, but also to raise 
berries for market, and they will find their money 
in it, and so will others who go early into the 
culture. This year there is in this city a demand 
for the berries at twenty-five cents a quart at 
wholesale, very greatly in excess of the supply, 
and this will continue for some years at least. 
Indeed, parties make a standing offer of 25 cents 
per quart for all the fruit they can get, to make into 
blackberry wine. We have examined a very fine 
wine made last year by putting the juice of 80 
quarts (2i bushels) of the New Rochelle Black¬ 
berries with 86 lbs. of sugar into a barrel of 31£ 
gallons and filling up with water. As 80 quarts 
of berries give about 50 quarts of juice, and the 
barrel contains 126 quarts, the water and sugar 
together amounted to 76 quarts, or H times the 
bulk of the blackberry juice. 
Calling the berries 25c. per quart, and the sugar 
12c. per lb., as it is now very high, we have $20 
for berries, and $10 for the sugar, or $30 for 30 
gallons of wine ; or $1,00 per gallon, which is 
much below the wholesale market value— enough 
so to cover the labor of making—and a profit. 
But 25 cents per quart will pay splendidly for 
growing these berries; they can be profitably 
raised for 6 cents a quart. We give these par¬ 
ticulars because we believe that there is here a 
good field open for profitable investment, for those 
who have the requisite facilities of soil, etc., for 
going into the culture. 
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Newman’s Thornless Blackberry, 
The above engraving of this fruit has been 
prepared for the Agriculturist by Mr. A. A. Ben- 
sel, agent for Mrs. Newman, widow of the late 
Jonas Newman, of Ulster Co., N. Y., who dis¬ 
covered this variety in the town of Milton, in 
that county. The canes have comparatively few 
spines which led to the name thornless. The 
vines are not so vigorous in growth as the New 
Rochelle and Dorchester, and commence bearing 
late. Our own, planted in the Spring of 1857, 
are growing thriftily but have not fruited yet. 
The fruit we have seen is sweet and of good 
flavor. We are unprepared by experience to say 
anything definite respecting the fruit. Persons 
wishing to give it atrial will find the plants ad 
vertised in this paper. 
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Fruits—Everybody may have an abund¬ 
ance in a Year or Two. 
This is a broad proposition, but strictly true. 
We do not of course mean a variety of large fruits 
such as apples, peaches, pears, plums, etc., but 
something equally good. Let us see how this is. 
1st. Rhubarb —This is so good a substitute for 
apples, etc., that we may for convenience, class it 
among fruits. Eight to a dozen Linnsus Rhu¬ 
barb (pie-plant) roots, set out the last of October, 
will furnish an excellent material for stewed 
