276 
AMERICAN AGEIC UIVTUHISIA 
is given in the usual manner, in pennyweights 
and grains. For convenience of reference we 
also add in the last column the total weight in 
grains; the avoirdupois ounce contains 437J 
grains.—E d ] 
Name of Grower. Name of Berries. Color. dwls. grs. 
H. Isherwood.. .Eagle.White.... 12—05=293 
II. Wilkinson... Conquering Hero..Red. 20—15=495 
13. F Ganside. .Conquering Hero..Red.17—13=421 
Isaac Cocker_Pilot.Yellow... 16—20—404 
James Cocker... Rough Green.Green —13—01=313 
J. Fairclough ...Freedom.Wilite_12—20=308 
II. Wilkinson... Conquering Hero..Red.19—11=407 
H. Wilkinson... Slaighter Man_Red.18—12=444 
H. Wilkinson... Speed well.Red.16—15=399 
James Cocker... Useful.Red.16—05 — 3S9 
George Porritt ..Seedling.Red. 13—22—334 
Isaac Cocker ...Companion.Red.13—15—327 
George Porritt.. Seedling.Red.13—13 — 325 
Isaac Cocker.... Lion’s Provider.. .Red.12—10=298 
H. Wilkinson.. .Railway__ . . .Yellow. .. 19—19=475 
Isaac Cocker_Catherina.Yellow.. .16—10=394 
George Porritt ..Washington.Yellow.. .16—10=394 
Isaac Cocker.... Pilot.Yellow.. .16—00=384 
Isaac Cocker... .Leveler.Yellow... 14—22=358 
James Cocker...Peru.Yellow... 14—04=340 
George Porritt.. Widow’s Delight..Yellow... 13—11=323 
George Porritt. .Seedling.Yellow.. .13—11=323 
Isaac Cocker_Thumper.Green-15—06=366 
Isaac Cocker_Green Overall.Green-14—15=351 
II. Wilkinson. . .Queen Victoria-Green_13—20=332 
Isaac Cocker... .Gretna Green.Green — 12—10=298 
J. Fairclough . ..Scantling’s Green Green-12—05=293 
George Porritt.. Paterson.Green-11—23=287 
James Cocker.. .Rough Green.Green-11—14=278 
II. Wilkinson... Turnout.Green — 10—14=254 
Isaac Cocker-... Careless.White.... 14—10=346 
Isaac Cocker_Eagle.White.... 14—16=352 
James Cocker... Cossack.White... .14—02=338 
H. Wilkinson... White Lion.White.... 14—00=336 
Isaac Cocker....Gariside’s White. .White 14—00=336 
13. F. Gariside.. .Snow Ball.White....12—14=302 
B. F. Gariside.. .Snow Drop.White... .11—11=275 
H. Wilkinson.. .Tally Ho.White... .11—02=266 
The New-Rochelle Blackberry. 
Each successive year’s observation and ex¬ 
perience hightens the favorable opinion of this 
fruit, which we have hitherto frequently ex¬ 
pressed. Five years ago we examined it care¬ 
fully, and published in the American Agricultur¬ 
ist a brief statement, setting forth its good 
qualities, and expressing a pretty strong confi¬ 
dence in its decided superiority. Our article 
was widely copied by the press throughout the 
country, and the plants have been disseminated 
about as fast as they could be propagated. Last 
year an advertisement of the plants was order¬ 
ed into the Agriculturist “ for the season,” but 
was early withdrawn, because the parties had 
sold out their entire stock of plants, amounting 
from twenty-five to thirty thousand, we believe. 
The number of plants already disseminated is 
probably considerably over 200,000—perhaps 
twice that amount, and so far as we can learn, 
they are giving excellent satisfaction. At first 
there was some complaint that the fruit was 
too acid. This arose from the fact that the ber¬ 
ries turn black from three to five days before 
they are fully ripe, and those persons growing 
their first crop, were, and still are generally too 
hasty in gathering the fruit as soon as the color 
changes. 
On soils only moderately good the canes grow 
quite large. We have seen them in several lo¬ 
calities this year, where the new canes of the 
present summer’s growth are 9 to 12 feet in 
bight, and over an inch in diameter. The last 
summer’s canes are everywhere, so far as we 
have learned, literally loaded down with fruit of 
large size and excellent quality. We have seen 
no plot on which mature, well ripened berries 
•would not average about an inch in diameter. 
They have few seeds, and when ripe are juicy, ten¬ 
der, and as sweet as would be desirable. The 
productiveness exceeds the belief of those who 
have not seen them in full hearing. 
To-day (Aug. 8) we made our sixth annual 
visit to the grounds of Messrs. Geo. Seymour 
&, Co., at South Norwalk, Conn., where the 
New-Rochelle Blackberry is largely cultivated 
both for fruit and plants, and all that we have 
before said of them at that place, is more than 
verified. It is worth a long journey to see the 
3)- acres now in bearing. From this ground 
they have gathered over o.ne hundred and fifty 
bushels during the last few days, and the canes 
are still heavily loaded, and the stranger would 
scarcely suspect that picking had commenced. 
One hundred bushels to the acre would be far 
below the true estimate. We doubt whether 
the total crop on the 3£ acres will be less than 
500 bushels. They are sending them to New- 
York market in baskets, holding nearly a pint, 
or say 5 baskets to 2 quarts. They are whole¬ 
saled here, and thus far have netted fully 10 cents 
per basket, or $8 per bushel, and even at these 
rates they consider it quite as profitable to make 
them into blackberry wine, of which they have 
put up as many as 8 barrels in a single day. 
For a 40 gallon cask, 25 gallons (100 quarts) 
of berries are crushed and pressed in a hand 
cider-mill, the juice, running through a strain¬ 
ing cloth, is put into the cask, and 110 lbs. of 
“ B ” sugar (common refined coffee sugar), dis¬ 
solved in water, is added. The cask is then 
filled up with water, allowed to stand open in 
the cellar for a week or so, when the bung is put 
in, a small vent left, and nothing more is done 
to it. It is not racked off or bottled, but care¬ 
fully drawn from the lees when wanted for use. 
We, with others, tested samples fresh drawn 
from barrels put up a year ago, and the universal 
testimony was: “first-rate.” Estimating the wine 
at only $1 per gallon—it will sell readily at much 
higher rates—and calling the 110 lbs. of sugar 10 
cents a pound, or $11, the 100 qts. of berries (re¬ 
quired for 40 gallons of wine, at $40) are worth 
$29, or 29 cents per quart. The labor of making 
the wine is less than preparing the fruit for 
market. 
We have an object in giving these figures, 
viz.; to show that for wine making alone there 
will be a large demand for the berries, at rates 
very profitable for the producer. But the mark¬ 
et demand will be immense, and unsupplied for 
years to come. Some 3000 quarts are daily 
brought to this city from different localities, which, 
at .first sight, would seem to indicate that this 
market will be soon over supplied. But 3000 
quarts are hardly a pint a piece for the grocery and 
provision stores alone. It is within bounds to say 
that a hundred times as many could now be sold 
in this city daily, at prices paying a large profit 
upon the cost of producing them. And a similar 
demand would be found in thousands of cities 
and towns throughout the country. Chicago, for 
example, is almost entirely unsupplied with home 
grown fruits—most of the smaller fruits sold in 
that city are brought all the way from Cincin¬ 
nati. Why may not blackberries, raspberries, 
and strawberries be raised for Chicago around the 
city, in Illinois, and also in Western Michigan, 
and Northern Indiana! The same remark applies 
to a multitude of other cities and towns. 
But aside from the market demand, we advise 
planting the New-Rochelle Blackberry, for home 
use. Every farmer’s table may well be supplied 
with an abundance of this healthful, delicious 
fruit. It is readily preserved in bottles or cans 
the entire year. A dozen or two plants, put out 
in the Fall or Spring, will send up a number 
of bearing canes for fruit the following year. 
They will grow on any good soil, if not too wet and 
clayey. Naturally rich soil will need little or no 
manure ; for poor soil, we advise a dressing of 
manure before putting out the vines. They may 
be set in the latter part of October, and during 
November, in this latitude—at any time after the 
Sc,.t, 
leaves are about dead, and before the soil freez¬ 
es. Some advise early Spring planting ; we pre¬ 
fer Autumn, because the roots will become fixed 
in the soil, and be ready to send up stronger 
shoots the next Summer. The short cane left m 
the root in taking up, may, or may not live over 
the Winter, but if not standing in very wet soil, 
the root will start up in the Spring. As the canes 
grow large, a good distance for planting is: 6 feet 
apart, in rows 8 feet apart, allowing the plants as 
they increase to fill the rows, and cultivating the 
soil between the rows. Some hoed crop may be 
put between the rows for the first season. 
We have received no advertisements of the 
plants as yet, for this month, (some will probably 
come in before we go to press), and we do hot 
know what price will be asked, but they are so 
abundant that they will be quite cheap this year. 
The better way for obtaining them is, for several 
neighboring fanners to club together and get from 
100 to 1000, at the wholesale rates, as this saves 
expense both in price and transportation. Let 
the ground be all ready,and set them out as soon as 
received, with the least possible exposure to sun 
or wind ; and If honestly packed for transportation 
there is very little risk of losing them. Having 
changed our location, we necessarily sacrified 
our splendid bearing plants, but we intend to do 
this very Autumn, what we advise our readers to 
do, viz.; make a New-Rochelle blackberry plan¬ 
tation to raise a supply of this magnificent fruit 
for home use. 
Vegetables for next Spring. 
bile the gardens 
are filled wit h 
abundance, a n d 
harvest rather 
than seed time is 
suggested by the 
huge beets, long 
carrots, and al¬ 
ready drooping 
onions, one is apt 
to forget that even 
now, this very 
September, some of the vegetable seeds should 
be sown so as to have early greens, cabbages, 
onions, etc., next Spring. Take a look at the 
early spinach bed, and notice the fine plants al¬ 
ready up from seed scattered from the ripened 
crop. These plants frequently come out bright in 
the Spring, with no care, and furnish a fine sup¬ 
ply of “ greens,” at a time w’hen the gardener is 
sowing his ordinary vegetables. It is not advis¬ 
able to trust to this chance product, but select a 
spot where an early crop of something has al¬ 
ready been gathered, spade in a good coat of ma¬ 
nure, rake off the bed and sow with spinach. In 
one week the plants will be up and will need hoe¬ 
ing and thinning. Upon the approach of cold 
Winter weather, cover rather lightly, with straw, 
leaves, evergreen brush, or salt hay, and remove 
it in April, when the plants will come out bright 
and fresh, and hray be gradually thinned out for 
the table. In the vicinity of cities, market gar¬ 
deners sow acres of spinach in this month, for 
sale during the late Fall, Winter, and early Spring. 
Onions may be sown in like manner, during the 
latter part of August or early in September. The 
small bulbs will frequently keep over Winter 
without covering, but it is belter to protect them 
as described for spinach. They are usually left 
quite thick till Spring, and then transplanted, 
furnishing onions for the table, a long time in 
advance of those sown in the Spring. Garlic, for 
