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Fruit medium to large, nearly globular, moderately juicy, nearly 
sweet, good in flavor and quality. Ranks sixteenth in productive- 
ness for 1893. 
Evergreen. Oregon Hvergreen. (Hrom J. M. Ogle, Puyallup, 
Wash., 1888.) This belongs to a species quite distinct from that of 
the common varieties of cultivated blackberries. It is known to 
botanists as 2?ubus laciniatus, Willd. The flowers are of a pale 
lilac tint, *calyx segments prickly ; somewhat leafy; reflexed at 
apex ; leaflets tee to five, dissected and sharply serrated, puber- 
ulous beneath. Stems nearly terete, straggling. Prickles dilated 
at base. It is a species indigenous to central Europe. Dr. N. L. 
Britton informs us that it occasionaly escapes from cultivation — 
along the Atlantic sea board. 
Fruit small, with firm grains and hard core, subacid, inferior 
to any of our commonly cultivated varieties either of the high 
blackberry Rubus villosus, Act. or of the dewberries &. Cana- 
densis, L. or R. trwvialis, Mx. The canes were killed to the 
ground last winter, but a rank growth of new canes was produced 
during the summer. 
Plants of this same species were received last spring from 
Samuel Wilson, Mechanicsville, Pa., under the name of Oregon 
Evergreen. In Mr. Wilson’s catalogue for 1893, it is described 
as extremely hardy, very productive and of excellent quality. He 
quotes a testimonial from Oregon stating that fully five bushels 
of fine berries were produced from one plant in one season. 
Such results have not been secured at this station with the 
Evergreen. Although the plants which were set here in 1888 
blossomed quite fully this season, they,ripened but few fruits and — 
what fruit did ripen, as just stated, was of poor quality. | 
Lawton, see New Rochelle. 
Lincoln. Canes, vigorous, upright, with many strong prickles. 
Fruit small, good quality, juicy, sweet. Many berries are imper- 
fect. Unproductive. Of no value here. 
Lovett. Jewett. (Krom J. T. Lovett, Little Silver, LV. 7. 
1890.) Canes slightly injured by the winter, vigorous, upright, 
with many strong prickles. Fruit small to medium, juicy, good | 
quality, nearly sweet; many imperfect berries. Unproductive 
here. 
*Dict. Gard. Vol. III, p. 331, 

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