Vol XLI. No. 1697. 
NEW YORK, AUGUST 5, 1882. 
PRICE FIVE CENTS, 
$2,00 PER YEAR. 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1882, by the Rural New-Yorker, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
This comparatively new and little known 
shrub blooms with the Japan Quince. The 
color of the bud is that of Gen. Jacqueminot 
Rose, as we have said in previous articles, but 
this color changes to a bright, delicate rose, 
both inside and out—not inside alone, as we 
previously stated. The petals vary from eight to 
fourteen. It is a far more graceful shrub than 
the Japan Quince. In this the branches are stiff, 
upright and unbending. In Hall’s Apple the 
branches are pliant and gracefully arching. 
It is one of the handsomest shrubs of the sea¬ 
son, and will not disappoint those who try it. 
The young leaves are elliptical, two inches 
long and frequently of a bright, bronze-pur¬ 
ple underneath. As we have said, it has 
proven perfectly hardy at the Rural Grounds, 
and it is from a specimen grown there that our 
illustration has been drawn and engraved. 
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THE MARLBORO RASPBERRY. 
This new raspberry is now causing so much 
excitement among fruit growers in the Sou¬ 
thern Ulster fruit section, by reason of its 
unusual promise, that I have been led to make 
a careful examination as to Its origin, habits, 
and meritorious claims to public favor. The 
facts thus elicited I now present to readers of 
the Rural as aecuratelv as possible. 
Late last week I attended a raspberry exhi¬ 
bition held in the little village of Highland, 
on the Hudson, which is now one of the great 
small fruit centers of the Hudson River Val¬ 
ley. I there found a fair show of the leading 
varieties of this fruit which has netted so 
many thousands of dollars to Ulster County 
fruit-growers in years past. Here was the 
new “ Marlboro,” not only a full supply of the 
fruit, but also the large canes of a growing 
hill in full fruitage, which had been cut from 
the ground and transported eight miles to the 
fair. The fruit was certainly the finest I ever 
saw—fine flavored, very large, firm, bright 
scarlet in color, and beautiful. The immense 
canes were loaded to the very tips. Three of 
the berries weighed half an ounce in the scales 
of an apothecary below the hall. Many lead 
ing fruit growers and propagators were in 
attendance, and great interest was manifested 
in this new raspberry. Mr. A. J. Cay wood, 
the originator, who exhibited the fruit was, 
of course, very enthusiastic in its praise, 
and freely invited parties to visit him at 
Marlboro, and see the raspberry growing. 
Such an invitation I accepted, preferring to 
satisfy myself in that way. I found that 
many other gentlemen, including prominent 
fruit men, both in this locality and from 
abroad, had also resolved upon the same plan 
of investigation, some ten or fifteen being pre¬ 
sent on the pleasant grounds of Mr. Cay wood 
on the day of my visit. 
Origin op the Marlboro. —Mr. Caywood 
says he has been experimenting with the view 
of improving the red raspberry for over 20 
years. He has labored to produce first of all 
an entirely hardy variety: then large size, 
fine appearance, and earliness of ripening. 
During these years he has obtained six gener¬ 
ations of the raspberry. His first cross waB 
that of the Hudson River Antwerp on the old 
English Globe variety. - He confined his efforts 
to the stock so obtained with the exception of 
admitting in the line, on one cross, the Button 
Raspberry. From his sixth and last cross, 
which was with the Highland Hardy, the 
Marlboro was produced. 
Points Claimed for it.— First he claims 
perfect hardiness. The canes have never been 
protected in his ground, and he says not a 
bud has ever been injured, but the fruit is 
produced at the very tip. It is also the earli¬ 
est and latest red raspberry they have, he 
says, commencing early and continuing long 
in fruit; it ripened last year on June 15th, and 
was in fruit for two months. This year by 
reason of the backwardness of the season, it 
ripened June 20th. The valuable feature of 
holding the fruit two or three days after 
ripening, is also claimed. Unusual vigor of 
canes, great productiveness, large size, and 
superior market qualities are other important 
features set forth by the originator. 
What I saw op toe Marlboro. —It was 
growing in the hills in what seemed to be good 
clay loam. The canes were immense, mea¬ 
suring from seven to eleven feet in hight. 
Each hill was a perfect pyramid of luxuriant 
dark green foliage, heavily laden with fruit 
in all stages of growth, from the large scarlet 
berries to the expanded .blossom. The fruit 
arms were over two feet long, and fruited all 
along, some having eight clusters of fruit 
each. The canes were fruited to the terminal 
bud. I confess it was a most attractive sight 
to any fruit grower, and the visitors were 
most enthusiastic in its praise. Mr. Nathaniel 
Hallock who first began the raspberry business 
on the Hudson nearly forty years ago, and 
who is now over eighty years of age, said this 
show of fruit, exceeded anything he had ever 
seen of the Hudson River Antwerp in its best 
days. He said if the berries would grow like 
that, an acre of them wuld produce about 
$2,000 in a single yer r. Another gentleman 
who was present, v. as afterwards seen in ear¬ 
nest conversation aside with the originator; 
and Mr. Caywood afterward informed me 
that he had been persuaded to put his price 
upon his stock of the Marlboro Raspberry, and 
had given the gentleman the first refusal. Of 
course, it has never yet been disseminated. 
H. Hendricks. 
[From what we have seen and know of this 
splendid variety, we freely subscribe to the 
above. But it must be borne in mind, that it 
has not been tested away from the favorable 
place of its origin. Eds.] 
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THE MANCHESTER STRAWBERRY Vs. 
HOVEY SEEDLING. 
Early last Spring my attention was called 
to the fact that Messrs. Hovey & Co., of Bos¬ 
ton, in their catalogue for 1S82, closed their 
description of the Hovey Seedling Strawberry 
by saying: “ After nearly fifty years of sue 
cessful cultivation this variety is now being 
introduced under the name of Manchester.” 
This is no simple hint that the two might be 
the same, but a broad statement that the 
Manchester is the old and worn-out Hovey 
under a new name,and,commg from such a well 
known firm as Hovey & Co., who ought to 
know their own pet child after more than forty 
years’ cultivation of it, this statement natur¬ 
ally attracted the attention of horticulturists 
all over the country, and led to much discus¬ 
sion in the horticultural and agricultural pro>s 
consequently letters began to pour in upon us 
accusing our firm and other nurserymen of 
palming off an old variety as a new and 
valuable one. Some even refused to take 
plants ordered, others declined to pay for 
those already received. To all such we wrote 
that Mr. Hovey knew very little about the 
Manchester, having never seen the plant, and 
the fruit but once, and that as soon as he had 
seen the strong and vigorous plant, with its 
load of fruit, as exhibited by us at Boston, on 
June 2Sth, 18S1, in connection with the Long¬ 
fellow, where it received the first prize for the 
best new variety on exhibition, he would at 
once admit it was entirely distinct from the 
Hovey Seedling. 
At the Nurserymen’s Convention at Roches¬ 
ter last June, I was beset on all sides in re¬ 
gard to the matter, and was asked in all 
seriousness, if we were not afraid the two 
were identical and would be proven so at 
fruiting time this year, showing conclusively 
that the statement of Hovey & Co. was taken 
in earnest, even by those who should have 
known better from the simple fact that it 
would be impossible for the worn-out Hovey 
to produce the enormous crops that the Man¬ 
chester has for the past few years on the sand 
barrens of Ocean Co., N. J., and even if the 
two were alike in every other particular the 
fact that the Manchester has eight, ten, and 
sometimes 20 fruit stalks to a single plant, 
while the Hovey never has more than two, 
and selaom more than one, should have con¬ 
vinced every fruit grower early in the season 
that the two kinds were entirely distinct, even 
if they doubted the statements of such high 
authority as Peter B. Mead, Dr. Hexamer, 
Prof. S. T. Maynard, E. Williams, Wm. 
Parry, P. M. Augur, E. P. Roe, and many 
others who saw it in fruit last Summer and 
pronounced it a new and valuable variety pro¬ 
ducing enormous crops of delicious berries on 
soil apparently little better than the ocean 
beach. 
Thus far I have refrained from saying any¬ 
thing in regard to the matter in print, wish¬ 
ing, before doing so, to exhibit the fruit and 
plant once more at Boston, where Mr. Hovey 
could have ample opportunity to compare 
it with his favorite and thus be able to 
render a more just verdict than that of la9t 
season. This opportunity was offered on June 
80, at the annual Rose and Strawberry Show 
of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 
and the following extract from a letter re¬ 
ceived from Mr. C. M. Hovey, dated July 4, 
1882, gives his opinion after once more seeing 
the fruit. " Yours of the 1st at hand, and I 
HALL’S APPLE—MALUS HALLEANA. [From Life.] Fig. 236. 
