I have seven varieties of raspberries, which shall be named in the order of their ripening.

The Kirtland showed its first ripe berries on the 13th of June, and yielded good picking every day or two for a month. The berry is small, very sweet, and hangs on the bush until it dries. Its hardihood, good quality, productiveness, and long season here, make it a valuable family berry. About the 20th of August the new canes began blooming, and I have continued to bloom and ripen fruit up to this date.

The Improved Black Cap ripened eight days later than the Kirtland, and ceased bearing a week earlier.

Brinkle's Orange was nearly burnt out last year, and, notwithstanding winter protection, summer mulching and a very favorable season, has grown very feebly. Some of the stocks, however, have shown fruit delicious in flavor and fair to look upon.

The Mammoth Cluster plants, obtained from Knox's nurseries in 1869, fruited fairly this season. They are almost identical with my other Black Caps in size and habit - fruiting two weeks later, and the berry neither so clean-looking nor so well flavored. I presume the only merit of this variety will be to prolong the season of Black Caps in localities where better raspberries cannot be grown.

The Woodley, an old red raspberry, hard and poorly flavored, was dug up and oast out.

The Monthly Raspberry commenced fruiting in June, and continued in bearing until a severe frost nipped its clusters of bloom, immature and ripe fruit. This variety is very prolific, and, although of inferior quality, its constancy should induce every amateur to plant at least a dozen or twenty stocks.

The Red Antwerp, with protection and mulching, has grown lustily and fruited continuously during the month of July. The produce was not quite satisfactory in quantity, but in quality surpassed anything of its kind that I have ever tasted. My desideratum now is to find a raspberry equal in quality to this, but more hardy and productive. Can you name one ?

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Dr. Hexamer stated at the New York Farmers' Club, that the excellence of the Mammoth Cluster consists in its holding the good sice of its berries to the end the Ellisdale he regarded as earliest, the Davison's Thornless three days later; Doolittle and Seneca ten days later still. These are among the best out of many sorts.