THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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berry, an arraignment of which was made at the Chicago 
convention George J. Kellogg at the convention said : 
“ I would like to know if any one here has had success 
with the Industry gooseberry.” William Fell, of Eng¬ 
land, has made answer both as to growth in this country 
and in England. It is important to have this testimony, 
in view of the widespread advertisement of this goose¬ 
berry. 
INSECT LEGISLATION. 
We publish the text of the Maryland and Virginia 
laws, of special interest to all who ship stock into those 
states. There was a very general desire expressed at 
the Chicago convention for information concerning the 
laws of the several states in so far as they affect nursery¬ 
men. The National Nurseryman has supplied much 
of this information. Following are the dates on which 
articles concerning the subjects mentioned appeared in 
this journal: California laws, April ’93, March ’94; 
Caminetti bill, November ’93 ; Washington laws, Febru¬ 
ary ’93, January ’95, May ’95 ; Minnesota law, December 
’94; Oregon law, July ’95; legislation on insects, April 
’94, May ’94, August ’94; San Jose scale, April ’95, July 
’95 ; peach yellows, November ’95 ; nurseryman’s guar¬ 
antee, June ’95. 
CUMBERLAND RASPBERRY. 
David Miller, Camp Hill, Cumberland county, Pa., sent 
us samples of his seedling black raspberry, the Cumber¬ 
land. It is easily the largest black raspberry we have 
ever seen. It is fine firm fruit and yet juicy and of excel¬ 
lent flavor. All that could be desired in the black rasp¬ 
berry seems to be embodied in this. Those who saw the 
samples here were enthusiastic in praise of it. Mr. Miller 
says: 
It originated with me some eight years ago, and while it fruited 
annually since and I saw superior merit in it, I paid little attention to 
it, not being in the berry business. But for some years it has attracted 
considerable attention, so that I gave it more attention and propagated 
it some. The reckless manner in which the country is flooded with 
novelties, or better say humbugs, as they usually have the majority, 
made me hesitate to move in the matter, as I had not seen all the black 
raspberries in the world. 
To settle my mind on the matter, I sent a few yearling plants last 
spring to J. W. Kerr of Denton, Md., and to Amos Miller of Columbus, 
O., the latter the originator of the Cumberland Triumph Strawberry. 
Both fruited. Mr. Kerr was wild over it, reporting berries of an 
. inch in diameter. Amos Miller reports: “Highly promising and 
deserving extensive trial.” I also sent fruit to various parties and the 
reports are very flattering. 
L. H. Bailey of Cornell University, reports: “By odds the finest I 
ever saw,” and the same answer comes from Parry of New Jersey, 
Slaymaker & Son, Dover, Delaware; Atkinson of Farm Journal, etc.; 
so I have now decided to risk my reputation on it. The berries sent 
are fair samples individually, but I could not give good clusters, as 
they are about over. 
J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg, Pa., says: 
On June 23d I first saw this berry at Mr. Miller’s farm, where a patch 
of fully a half acre was just ripening. The enormous size and peculiar 
shape of the blackcap was.&t once remarked by a party of fruit growers, 
including Eli Cocklin, the noted Pennsylvania peach grower, and 
Gabrial Iliester of the Pennsylvania State College. Comparisons were 
made between the new raspberry, which it was then determined to call 
“Cumberland,” and other well known blackcaps, all of them being 
very greatly in favor of the new berry. On June 27th Mr. Miller 
brought me several clusters of this berry, which I took with me to 
New York, and from thence to Savannah via steamer. The berries 
kept in good shape during the entire trip, and were firm on Tuesday, 
June 30th, though fully ripe when handed to me on the 27th. On July 
9th a specimen cluster was again seen. This cluster contained 27 
berries, of which none fell under f-inck diameter, while several were 
nearly three inches around. 
To-day, to my astonishment, I found Mr. Miller selling this fruit in 
the market, and obtained from him a quart box, among which were 
many berries of |Juch diameter and several one-inch diameter. As I 
compared them with Wilson blackberry of fair size the difference was 
in favor of the Cumberland ! 
With ordinary culture the shape of the berry is thoroughly distinct 
from that of any other blackcap I have ever seen or heard of, it being 
characterized by a conical point. In flavor it is excellent, there being 
less of the wild taste than usual among blackcaps, and mildness and 
freedom from acidity which makes the berry more than usually 
attractive on the table. 
CAUSE OF UNUSUAL BLIGHT. 
Janesville, Wis., July 15.—Is there any new thing 
learned about blight? Transcendent crab, usually one 
of the worst to twig blight, is almost free of blight and 
heavily loaded with fruit. Now, is it not because the flow 
of sap is to sustain this burden of fruit that it is not 
blighting? Yellow Transparent is heavily loaded with 
fruit and one tree is blighting badly, while the others are 
free, these are standing in grass and are not kept too rich. 
There is more blight on McMahon, Fameuse and Wealthy 
than usual. Where the trees are open to the prevailing 
south winds there is less blight than where there is any 
wind break. 
In all my examinations I have found but one borer in 
the blighted twig and I do not find, as one other writer 
says, much of the blight is caused by the twig borer. I 
do not agree with Downing that fire blight is caused 
mostly by frozen sap in the fall. 
I find blight worse on rich soil, in orchards on low 
ground and surrounded by wind breaks, but this year it 
is unusually bad on high locations. Varieties free from 
blight are Oldenburg, Peerless, Wolf River, N. W. Green¬ 
ing, Peach apple, Haas, Glass Green, Fall Spitzenburg, 
Flushing Spitzenburg, Virginia crab, Shield’s crab, Martha 
crab and Whitney, No. 20 And we have thirty other 
varieties that are blighting badly in nursery and orchard. 
The worst of these are among the Russians, although 
Talman Sweet, Golden Russet, St. Lawrence and many 
other of our standard varieties are more or less affected. 
I do not beiieve there is any relief in pruning and burning, 
unless it is done while the blight is in the early stages of 
its development. 
It seems to be caused by an over-abundant flow of sap 
in the sultry weather of May and June, a sort of apple 
apoplexy. The only remedy I see is to get up on higher 
ground and weed out the varieties that are disposed to 
blight. George J. Kellogg. 
