October 1, 1898. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
67 
K JE2 T— THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND. 
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Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , OCT. i st, 1898. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENT. 
Wednesday, October 5th.—Annual Dinner of the Unitsd 
Horticultural Benefit and Provident Society at the Hoi- 
born Restaurant, Mr. Geo. Bunyard in the chair: time, 
6.30 p.m. 
Whe Cultivation of Blackberries or 
Brambles. — Communications from 
several correspondents indicate that there 
is something in Blackberry culture after all. 
The inducement would seem to have come 
at first from cultivators on the other side of 
the Atlantic where, of course, American 
species or varieties were grown, and found 
their way in greater or less numbers to this 
country, where they met with variable and 
sometimes indifferent success. Many gar¬ 
deners, who planted a number of the 
varieties recommended, have since aban¬ 
doned them more or less completely. Some 
of them still remain, and give satisfaction 
when grown under suitable conditions, as 
intimated by “ W. W.” at p. 21. We have 
nothing to say against the cultivation of 
American Brambles, but think that British 
species would be more likely to respond to 
the art of the cultivator by reason of clim¬ 
atic influences. Brambles ripen late, 
and require full exposure and sunshine to 
bring them to perfection before the advent 
of frost, particularly in the more northern 
parts of the Kingdom. The summer tem¬ 
perature in the United States is higher, 
and the heat steadier and longer continued 
than in our insular situation. For that 
reason we think that British Brambles 
would be more likely to succeed in gardens 
under skilled treatment in average seasons 
than foreign ones from districts under 
different climatic conditions. 
On p. 742 of last volume, “W. B. G.” 
actually speaks in favour of the English 
Bramble, and that the best of the American 
varieties had been discarded after a fair 
trial with the native species or variety, 
whichever it may be. There are wild 
Brambles and Brambles ; for our botanists 
are by no means agreed as to the number 
of species, different authorities computing 
the genus Rubus variously from five to 
close upon one hundred species. In any 
