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

several bushes, measured them i'm baskets, and
they astOnishedat the amount which it
might be possible to grow on an acre, that they
dared not to repeat it to the uninitiated in the
wonders offrut growing. We had learned from
circulars that from four to eight quarts were pro
duced by single canes, and that 500 to 1000
ripe berries were to be counted on cane of av-
erage siZc we ionnd one cane having over 1000!
Sent to the city in quart boxes, they bring 80
cents ut wholesale! Raspberry baskets filled
with these berries will sell for 10 cents and the
retailers get what they choose TO ask. Judging
| from the present demand, we believe 500 acres
may be planted to this blackberry, and the
whole results sent to the New York market, they
would fail of being plentiful enough to be with
in the reach of all. In fact we do not believe
the market can be well overstocked."
They appear so far to grow well on almost
any soil. Some cultivators recommend moist
loan, or even clay We have them planted on
very rich and poor soil. We gathered some of
our best berries last season from the poor soil.
The editor of the AgricultUrist says: "rhe
best growth and fruiting we have seen is upon
rocky side hill, though perhaps not better than
others on dark muck and peaty soil"
| Lest it might be thought that we overrate this
famous fruit, we will add the opinions of few
gentlemen who are every way competent to form
a correct judgment of its merits
| Mr.. Charles Downing, in the horticultural,
thus speaks of it:
''Having heard good deal said about the
| New Rochelle Blackberry, for the past year or
two, and knowing that many of the new fruits
were over praised, made special visit, few
days since, to see for myself and can assure
you was well paid for my trouble. There is
no humbug about it, and the only wonder is
that it has not been more generally introduced
and propagated before. The fruit is large and
sweet. 1t is an enormous bearer; indeed the
\ quantity considering the large size of the
\ fruit,) surprised me, and the berries were per-
feet"
as to its size, it will surprise most persons
who see it for the first time. At NOrwalk
saw several stalks bearing from five to eight
quarts each. We tried some that had been
gathered over forty hours, and found the flavor
very good. quart of them numbered seven
ty one berries. We picked quart from vines
! which had received no manure for two years
past, and from which the largest had Just been
selected for the New Haven Horticultural Socic-
ty, and found that scventy-two OF them filled a
quart measure.
"The vines grow quite largc-nany of them
over an inch in diameter, and the fruit hangs in
clusters, in size more like very large Green Gage
Plums, than like the ordinary blackberry. The
flavor is not apparently diminished by its large
size, and the few seeds is not its least recon-
mendation We think this berry n valuable
/ QUESTION to our domestic fruits and worthy of
a place in every Standardization AgrieuL
| tHriS'.
| 1--WE alluded the other day to the cultivated
berries, called the New Rochelle, raised by Mr.
George Seymour, at South Norwalk. They are
not the wild Blackberry, bnt peculiar variety
\ by themselves. They grow to four times the
size of the common berry, have n delicious fla
vor, yield abundantly, are hardy, easily raised,
and remain in bearing some six weeks. This
fruit will be great accession to our list Of com
mon berries, aud deserves the attention of our
citizens who conspicuous for the variety and
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Nelc HdreH journal, 1856
Much more might be said in truth in favor
of this fruit, but we trust enough has been said
to induce all your readers, who have an oppOr-
turity, to try 1T for themselves. Az