A lady residing in Washington Territory sends a leaf, confirming Mr. Carman's statement that it is but the cut-leaved English Blackberry : " I enclose a small leaf of the ' Evergreen Blackberry' mentioned in November number. It is quite common here, very hardy, free grower, and prolific bearer; indeed, is sometimes called 'ever-bearing,' for it begins to ripen with the Lawton, and I have known well-ripened, but of course not very sweet berries, picked on Christmas day. When well ripened the quality and size compare favorably with the Lawton. It is very handsome also, but oh, so thorny, and does best trained on a trellis".

[It is a surprise to learn that this kind comes near the Lawton in size. Here in the East they do not reach half that. This, and the double-flowered as well as this, retain the leaves till quite late in the season, - indeed, when a trailing branch gets covered by snow, the leaves remain green till spring. The botanical name is Rubus frutico-sus, an English, and not a "Sandwich Island" species, and is the most common form in English hedge-rows. It has the remarkable peculiarity in a blackberry of having very often perennial stems, as in its neighbor, the rose. The writer has seen stems many years old, and among his earliest literary contributions was a paper to the Phytolo-gist, describing an unusually old and large specimen. The species probably obtained the name of fruticosus from this fruticose or shrubby character. The leaves are very white beneath and very green above, and suggested to some other botanist the name of Rubus discolor.

It is really a good fruit in the form of the cut-leaved variety, as well as a very ornamental plant to grow. - Ed. G. M].