Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-20

the general appearance of cluster Of berries,
no larger than many we have seen, handled and
tasted.
ORIGIN.
1t is a new and perfectly distinct variety, and
not the common kind improved by cultivation.
1t originated near New Rochelle, New York, and
was first brought into notice by Mr.. Seacor, who
is much better entitled 10 the name of it than
the gentleman who for pecuniary advantages
wishes it to be called the Lawton.
The shape of the fruit, it will lie seen, is not
that of the wild blackberry, but resembles the
Hovcy's Seeding strawberry. We are inclined
to the opinion that it is an accidental cross of
the common blackberry and dewberry. We
have been led to this conclusion from the follow
ing considerations. The first year the plants
trail on the ground, very much like the dewber-
ry, but afterwards grow uprighly very stoutly,
from ten to fifteen high. The shape of the fruit
is S,ot mulberry like, as the common blackberry
is. but resembles the dewbcrry, though it ismuCh
larger, and when perfectly ripe the flavor is quite
equal.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PLANT AND FRUIT.
The plants are very hardy and Vigorous
more so than the common varietes.-and stand
the cold we'll The fruit is juicy and fine fla
vorcd with very few seeds. The size can hard
ly be appreciated by those who have seen only
the common kinds Of about the average size,
sixty to eighty berries will fill quart measure;
while of those little above the medium from
forty to fifty will do the same. An inch to an
inch and a half may be set down as the aver
age diameter, though larger berries arc quite
common.
SEASON.
They commence ripening about the middle of
July, and continue from five to eight weeks
This is most opportune. Ripening as they do
just Mt the WHEN there are no other fruits
when the strawberry and raspberry crops
have been exhausted, and peaches and grapes
have not yet Observation-Disclosures could not
well be dispensed with, especially when We
beneficial effects upon the system during the
hot season.
PRoDUcTIvENESS.
| The yield is enormous One of the editors of
the New York Tribune says: eve received a
few days SINCE an invitation from Mr.. George
| Seymour, to visit his nursery and view several
acres in bearing. We arrived on the ground
about 10 A. NJ, in company with number OI
ladies and gentlemen, who Immediately began
| to insinuatc themselves among the bushes, which
were standing very thickly, and all well laden
with fruit Astonishment seized the party, and
while viewing the gorgeous display, we for a
time forgot to taste the tempting berries The
bushes had occupied this field for two years
and were well supplied with side shoots, all load
ed with berries in very stage, from the smallest
green to the largest ripe blackberry, aud they
mere blackberrieS! Those wonderful berries
produced on the mountain, or by the old stone
4 wall on the homestead farm, which produced so
fine flavor in our youthful days, lost all the
deliciOusneSs ascribed to them by a lingering
memory, when we had tasted few of the fully
! ripe New RochelleS. Shall we say how many
bushels of fine fruit are taken from an acrr?-
We dare not. We had with as several hOrticul-
turists, who are engaged in supplying New York
with fine fruits. They counted the berries on