The Gladstone raspberry originated with the veteran and well-known horticulturist Charles Carpenter of Kelleys Island, Ohio. He sent us plants to test four years ago. They were given no particular culture, and almost for-gotton, until fruiting time, when passing that way I was attracted by a buzzing of bees. Looking towards the source of the music of the busy insects I noticed the plants of Gladstone, the strong canes bowed down with their burden of ripe fruit, and yet blossoming freely, the blossoms being covered with honey bees.

The points that struck me most forcibly about this new raspberry were: 1st, perpetual fruiting, beginning July 15, and continuing through August, September and October, after other raspberries have disappeared ; 2nd, bearing full crops the same season planted, the fruit appearing on the canes of the present year's growth, as well as on the canes of the past season's growth ; 3rd. the great vigor and hardiness of the plant, the canes growing often 5 to 6 feet high, and the foliage never scalding ; 4th, the quality of the fruit, which is far above the average of red raspberry; 5th, the productiveness of the plants - I have seen no variety of this class that will produce so many berries. The color is a dark red, a little too dark for best display. The size, while not the largest, is above the average red raspberry as seen in our markets. It is propagated from the root, like most of the other red varieties. - Charles A. Green, Rochester, New York.

Mr. Carpenter writes as follows concerning it: "It is a chance seedling that came up in my garden some 10 or 12 years ago where I had a number of kinds, among them the Catawissa. I think it a very good berry for family use. It may not be so desirable for market, as it matures its crop gradually during the whole season so that there is never a very large picking at any one time, I think it is better to cut the canes close to the ground every spring; by doing this you do not get any fruit in spring, but a better fall crop which lasts from about August until frost".