A Lansing, Leavenworth county, Kan., correspondent writes : "I am a grower of small fruit and vegetables for market. I obtained through a friend (who has traveled extensively in the far West) a blackberry plant from the Sierra Nevada mountain slope in Nevada, in the autumn of 1871; planted it and have tested it thoroughly, and find it to be ' the hardiest' I ever knew; a very heavy bearer, fruit large and luscious, inclined to a long or thimble shape, ripening with me from July 10 to August 15, and a few berries up into September. We call it the Nevada blackberry".

[Here we have again our old friend the cut-leaved English blackberry; not, as we have said, a native of this continent, but an introduction from the Old World. There will be no excuse for naming it over again - Nevada blackberry or anything else. The native blackberry of the Pacific coast is Rubus ursinus, and of little account as a fruit.

It is however very interesting to know that this old English variety is doing so well in the Western portions of the new world. - Ed. G. M].

This - as the Evergreen blackberry and the Sandwich Island blackberry - had just about started on a "booming" career, when another names it "Nevada" blackberry, and will no doubt get a share of the enormous prices which the ignorant always pay for a new name to an old thing. It is fair to say that the old cut-leaved blackberry here introduced as something new is by no means a worthless thing, and we have often wondered that it was not more popular.