Botanistsknow well that there is no "native blackberry in the Sierra Nevadas" fit to eat, and others who are not botanists know well that this so called "Evergreen" "Nevada" blackberry is only a variety of the English species known as Rubus fruticosus. But some of our Pacific friends who do not know as much as they will some day are indignant at the Eastern papers for telling them the truth. At a recent convention, reported in the Oregonian, Mr. Manning, an architect of Portland, but an excellent amateur gardener, said :

"They are as genuine an evergreen as the pine or fir, the leaves remaining on the whole year, making them very ornamental, and they make as nice an arbor for winter as the grape does for summer." He adds: "It is ridiculous to compare them to the old cut-leaf blackberry, for one bush of evergreen will produce more fruit than ten acres of the other, and I am surprised at the Rural New Yorker referring to them as such." They will stand the Colorado or any other climate. A. J. Fix writes that the blackberry in question "is as much an evergreen as the pine or anything else."Mr. Offner says," they make a growth of from twenty-five to thirty feet in two years and are loaded with berries the full length".

It will perhaps be news to these friends that this species is " evergreen " here in Philadelphia when the foliage gets' under the snow as much as it is in Oregon.