The cultivation of raspberries everywhere within the reach of daily transportation to large cities has become one of the items of rural commerce, and it is important to gain all the knowledge we can as to the comparative value of varieties. Recently looking over a number of letters from our far West correspondents, we were struck with the universal expression relative to the hardihood and productiveness of their native varieties; and with this in our mind, remembering that the best blackberries we have are merely chance gathered superior wildlings, not attributable to the skill of man for their production, we feel anxious and desirous that energetic attention and thought be given to examination of our native wild raspberries in our new Western States and Territories. We hope our Western fruit-growers will look at this matter carefully in its season, and note down such plants as appear worthy. We shall be pleased to receive plants, one or more of such as promise well, and will give them a fair trial, and report in due time.