Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-04-05
NO. l..
this season, without Of y extra attention, meas
uring from | p to 2}4 inches in diapeter.
THE TEroNPHE DE GAND STRAWBERRY.

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been said about this variety, and it has not
been generally cultivated but as soon as well
known, it will be the most popular strawber-
ry in the country. There is no known excel
| lencc which it DOES not possess. The plants
are thrifty, hardy, and vigorous growers bear
/ ing their fruit well upi which renders it easy
! to be kept clean. They are also wonderfully
/ productive, and the fruit is not only USUALLY
/ of very large size hnt unifornlig so, and
! throughout the season. which is longer with it
than most other varieties. The favor is eve
rytling that could bc desired. 1t is of u very
beautiful crimson color, glossy and altogether
lovely.9 1t keeps well after being picked, re-
( tanning its beautiful color and frmness, and
carries better than any other variety. Mr..
Knox planted of this variety, last spring, four
! acres for truiiing, but was so well pleased
with the seasons crop that he concluded to
devote all OF these TO propagation. and will
have millions Of plants for sale the coming
spring, Fruit of this variety, and Trollope's
Vic'oria, was bought at Mr.. Knoxs Market
street stand this season at from so cents to 81
per quart, and was sent to Cincinnati, Phila-
deiphia and New York. Besides the KINDS
above ment Oned, there are a number offoVegn
varies under cultivation that promise WE'LL
Some Of them bore fruit this season Of re-
markable size aud beauty; but Mr.. Knox
wishes to test then, another season before ex-
pressing an opinion as to their value.
Tue RASPBERRY DEPARTMENT
Is as yet somewhat smaI when compared with
his straw wberry palch, but very large when
considered by itself. He has ten acres very
saL IL
The FastolI, Red Antwerp, and Hudson riv-
or Antwerp, do exceedingly well with him,
but his three favorite varieties are, Brinckle &
Orange, Franconia, and Improved AruericRn
Black Cap. Brinckles Orange Mr. Knox
considers he finest favored raspbarry in the
worid-or large size, beautiful co'or unvary-
ing productiveness and delic 'oIs favor. The
Frauconia berry is not so highly favored, but
is very large. It's size and color render it at
tractive, and ever procure for it q ready mar
ket. 1t is enormously productive, and con-
tinues hong lime in bearing. The improved
American Black Cap is much superior to the |
common Back Cap. The fruit is sweet and
juicy and very large sometimes measuring
three quarters Of an inch ia diameter. Many
persons prefer this to all other varieties, One
advantage it possesses over all others is its
hardness ii never requires any winter pro
lection. Mr.. X. was so much pleased with
this variety, and the fruit was found 0 b4 So
popular in market this season, that is produc
ing as rapidly as possible, new plants Cor sale,
and will have very large supply for his Gus
toners this autumn.
THE NEW RoCuELI.E BLAcKBLRRY.
The blackberry patches will Immediately at
tract the attention. and will command the
marked admiration OF every visitor to Mr..
Knox's farm. The blackberry is a fruit which
b IS been in culture but very few years, b.
so many and so excellent have been the varie-
ties already produced, and SO enormous and
profitable La been their yield, that it is destin-
ed to become Il great and indispensable favor
ita with the amateur and the professional fruit
ist Mr. K. has ahout ten acres Of them in
cultivation, Int is rapidly increasing his plant
ations. The three chief varieties are the New
Rochelle, the Dorchester and the Thornless,
but he estecms the Rochelle the best. Mr.. K
was tie first to introduc. it into market, and
after overcoming many obstacles, and encoun-
terng and conquering many predjudices, he is
now highly successful with it, not only sending
enormous quantities OF the berry to market,
where it always commands from twenty TO
twcn'y five cents per quart, but distributing
throughout the West and South prodigious
numbers of the plants; carefully packed in tidy
bund IS, anl imbt,ll d in soft m,'sa. He has
now cultivated it for tive years, and was high
" pleased With it from the time it commenced
/ to bear but he thinks far more highly Of il now
tl.an eTcr. II is in the most lively de nand. not
l. Al, h1f lbs IN
/ Jams aid i4ilieS - for which purpose I'll r
/ are noro OF its .pecies Ca Ie, in to compare
/ with it..
This berry can be devoted to so many profit
able purposes that it will he found difficult to
overstcok the market for many years to c)m1.
It's medicinal qualities are by no means its
least Recommendation. During the hot season
no fruit is SO grateful to the taste, or SO bcneh-
cal in its influences.
| In word, it may be called the Queen Of
Berries; aud Mr.. Knox deserves the highest
credit for his enterprise in thus introducing
this suprr-cxcellent fruit into our market, as
well as doing all he possibly can to extend the
culture Of the berry throughout the West. 1t
has been pronounced by many who have com
m;tted serious blunders in planting, or who
have tasted the fruit when not fully ripe to b.
somewhat of humbug; but we have the very
best evidence aud the most reliable authorities
for saying that when perfectly ripe it is a par
agon Of excellcuce-of the most exquis isite fla
vor. and not equaIed by any berry yet grown
in beauty, size and enormous productlvenes
1t is by no means fully ripe when quite black.
After becoming black it tastes quite tart. and
comparatively juiceless and havorless, but Il
allowed to remain until as it just were melting
away from the stem, it has then acquired all
) its richest and most savory juices, has an in
comparable favor aud ia Of most delicious lu-
seriousness.
PRESENT APPEARANCE OF THE ROCHELLE.
T, Mr.. Knoxs New Rochelle plantations. are
( now in high season. The berries are either
; fully ripe or rapidly ripening, and present a
5 sight worth going great way to behold. We
S stood in the midst Of patch, and on all sides
: of us stood thrifty and vigorous bushes, laden
+ ed down to the very earth, and lying along up
= on the ground, with large clusters of mos
: beautiful aud most appetizing fruit. We hac
s only to take our position anywhere, stretcE
: forth oul hands, and pluck our GIL Of suci
beautifully large and doliciously melting berries
? as we have never seen equnled, and never ex
's pcct to see excelled II makes the mouth wat
n er even to write Of them. Large as thes
y berries are. they contain scarcely any seed
/ but just melt away in the mouth like snow
y fakes.
IL No; the Rochelle black berry sno humhuG
70 a fact most abundantly proved by those wh
have grown it largest and most extensively, an
I'd who now universally and enthusiastically unit
r in expressing their opinion that no more pr'
I'd ductive, delicious or profitable berry has ev'
IS yet been produced.
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