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Vol. XL. No. 6. 
Whole No. 1619, 
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NEW YORK, FEB, 5, 1881. 
vPkioe Five Cents. 
) 82.00 Per Tear, 
[Entered accordlDK to Act of Oonprress, In the year 18H, by the Rural New-Yorker, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
Rochelle, N. Y., and was introduced to the 
public three or four years ago. The plaut is a 
strong, vigorous grower, and an abundant 
bearer. The fruit is of the Black Cap type 
in habit and shape; is one-half to five-eighths 
of an inch in cross diameter; of a dull pur¬ 
plish-red color (a decidedly objectionable 
feature in some markets), and will bear 
transportation as well as the Black Caps. The 
quality or flavor of the fruit iB only medium, 
and will bear no comparison with that of 
Brinckle's Orange, Clarke and the finer varie¬ 
ties of the Antwerp class. 
It propagates from the tips of the canes, the 
same as the Black Caps. On my grounds it 
has shown a tendency to be affected by the 
fruit, and virtually destroying its use for des¬ 
sert or market purposes. 
As a market fruit in localities like New York, 
where a bright, attractive color is of the ut¬ 
most importance, I apprehend the New 
Rochelle would be a failure; yet there are 
localities where pleasing the eye is not so im¬ 
portant or difficult. For instance, a friend of 
Westchester County, N, Y., wrote me July 19, 
1880, as follows : “l am now picking my 
new raspberries, Caroline and New Rochelle. 
I commenced 21 days ago, and from appear¬ 
ances will pick a week or two longer. I 
have nearly two acres of the New Rochelle 
and have had an enormous crop ; I contracted 
it at Fort Chester, White Plains and Rye to 
heavy crops, his enthusiasm is not to be won¬ 
dered at. At such prices and with a ready 
demand, the grower need not “care a fig” 
for color or flavor, a **big crop ” shou'd be 
his ultimatum, and the profit would surely 
follow. E. Williams. 
NEW ROCHELLE RASPBERRY 
PETEK B. MEAD 
The New Rochelle Raspberry is an un¬ 
doubted seedling of the Catawissa, raised about 
eleven years since by Mr. 8. P. Carpenter of 
New Rochelle, N. Y. (who also, a little later, 
raised the Caroline), and was first sent out in 
1877, after about eight years of trial. I have 
grown it some three or four years. I first saw 
it in full bearing three years ago at Mr. Win. 
8. Carpenter's of Rye, where it seemed to be 
perfectly at home, as do all 
the small frnitB. Up to that 
time I had seen nothing in 
the way of a berry plant that 
bore such an enormous crop; 
and I have seen nothing 
since except the Snyder 
Blackberry, and perhaps the 
Caroline Raspberry, and 
from the latter I think I 
can gather more fruit, taking 
plant for plant. I have seen 
the New Rochelle Bince at 
the originator's, where it also 
bore a wouderful crop; and 
my own plants, on a much 
lighter soil, seem to have 
done about as well. It is 
not only very productive, 
but a rampant grower, and 
is as hardy as any wilding 
growing iu the woods. It is . 
propagated from the tips. 
The berry is large, dark- Nfflj 
red, covered with bloom, 
rather firm, with a sprightly 
subacid juice grateful to 
many, and carries well to ^ 
market. Mr. C. of Rye, has 
realized 15 cents a quart for Y 
it. The ripe wood is a bright Iff 
red, thickly covered with a ^ 
fine bloom. Though uot a ' ^ 
fruit of the first quality, it \\ 
might for a time hold the 
place of a poor man’s berry, it 1 
since it will grow and pro- 7^ 
duce a large crop of good jM}%) 
fruit under almost any con- /if////Iff $) 
ditions of soil and culture. /JMwM 
Mr. Downing and some 
others have noticed an iin //fflmlfffl/ 
perfection in some of the 
pips, which they suggest may I 
be owing to mildew. It is 
seen chiefly in bad eeasons * 
like the past, mostly on the 
late berries, and is owing to 
imperfect fertilization and 
not to mildew. It disfigures 
the fruit, but seems not to 
be otherwise hurtful. 
If Mr. Williams and a few 
others who are not afraid of 
a failure, would undertake 
to grow a few plants of the 
too-rooting raspberry by a 
method which I have not yet 
tried suffl .uently to warraut 
me to speak of it publicly, 
but whieh would seem to 
promise success, I will gladly 
explain it to them. It would 
save much time in proving 
The New Rochelle Raspberry. 
Of the new raspberries, after several years] 
trial, the New Rochelle is decidedly the 
finest variety I have yet tested, and I be¬ 
lieve I have had nearly every kind that has 
been offered for trial. I have now two acres, 
of the New Rochelle which fruited the past 
season. The ueld was very large; the entire 
crop was sold at the villages within three or four 
miles, at 15 cents per quart- 
I think this variety will yield 
three times as ranch as any 
other kind in cultivation ex¬ 
cept the Caroline. This is a 
very promising new variety. 
It is thought by good judges 
to be abont as good as 
Brinckle's Orange. It is won¬ 
derfully productive, and, be¬ 
ing entirely hardy, will make 
a most valuable addition to 
our list of hardy raspberries. 
It is not as firm as the New 
Rochelle, and consequently 
will not bear long shipment. 
The berry is very large and 
of a fine orange color. 
Wm. 8 . Carpenter. 
Rye, N. Y. 
Mr. Charles Downing, in 
reply to our inquiry. 6tates 
as follows: 
“The New Rochelle Rasp¬ 
berry is very promising and 
worthy of cultivation." 
RURALISMS 
On page nine, a corres- 
pondent suggests that the 
ygmUHr statement in regard to the 
yield of the Blount Corn in 
connection with flat culture, 
would have heen more satis- 
factory if the editor had 
eai 'thed 11 P half the lot, and 
tfiv-en the result. It would 
w certainly have been interest- 
l|r ing and instructive, but it is 
’ a mistake to suppose that 
such experiments have never 
been made, I am able to 
say, of my own knowledge, 
that they have been made a 
r ~ number of times by careful 
and intelligent farmers, and 
particularly by one who had, 
at the time, the reputation 
of being the model farmer 
of his county, and famed for 
his golden butter. At my 
suggestion he grew about 
^ half his torn crop on the flat 
system, while the other half 
\ was earthed up in the nsnal 
^ ^ way. The season proved to 
be a dry one, and the differ- 
\“ ence between the two was so 
great as to be observed from 
the roadside. I could men- 
^ tion a number of other cases 
where the two methods have 
been carefully compared ; 
and it is not many months since a correspond¬ 
ent of a Western horticultural journal stated 
that he and his hired man made an ex¬ 
periment in flat culture at the suggestion 
of the latter (the employer evidently sup¬ 
posing the metned to be quite new) and 
this correspondent candidly admitted that 
THE NEW ROCHELLE RASPBERRY, 
fungus so destructive to the Black Caps over 
a wide extent of country, and the past season 
the fruit was also defective after the first 
picking, many of the pips falling to swell, or 
else they had been punctured by some insect 
and the juice extracted, causing them to dry 
up, thereby marring the appearance of the 
(From Life.)—Fig. 41. 
parties that have had it for several years, for 
15 cents per quart. The product with me is 
about three times as much as that of any other 
kind. I have discarded everything in the 
raspberry line but these two, and the latter is 
the berry of all berries for the million.” 
In Buch a locality, with such prices and 
