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using enough o£ the perfect-blooming varieties. AVhen we consider that 

 the pollen must touch or go to every practicle of space in which the imper- 

 fect-blooming varieties are, does it seem likely that one row of those per- 

 fect-blooming varieties is sufficient to assure the fertilization of live or six 

 times as many rows of the imperfect-blooming varieties? AVill you tell us, 

 would one or two rows be sufficient to fertilize live or six rows of imperfect 

 varieties '? 



Prof. BuDD : I do not know how it is elsewhere, but many of our straw- 

 berry-growers almost failed with the Crescent. During the flowering 

 period it was cloudy, not exactly rainy; the weather was not favorable for 

 bees, nor favorable for the distribution of pollen; the rows next to the 

 fertilizing row were full of fruit, and the intermediate rows had no fiiiit 

 except a few small berries; even one row or two did not fertilize on the 

 inside last year, and where they are grown to reach the best results for 

 home use, I advise setting one row of perfect to one row of imperfect, then 

 you get perfect fertilization; but of course, in marketing, one row to two is 

 admissible. Take the Charles Downing and fertilize it, and it is about as 

 good a berry as we have out west, but about two thirds of its stamens are 

 abortive and of course it would be imperfectly fertilized, and with careful 

 examination you will find that some of our so-called perfect varieties have 

 too much pollen, and of course such varieties would not have many berries. 



Mr. Reed of Ohio : I wish to speak of the Warfield. I am from the part 

 of Ohio known as the Barnesville berry-growing district; I suppose we 

 have as good a reputation as berry-growers as any state in the Union, and 

 in regard to the Warfield, this year, where we gave it a fair test, I regard 

 the fruit as being superior to that from the Crescent. The fruit with us 

 this year is very perfect; we had all that could be desired in the blooming 

 season, and sufficient rain to bring the fruit to maturity. When I left 

 yesterday morning there were specimens of the Wilson and Crescent that 

 would average almost the size of any Sharpless I have seen for some years. 



Mr. LoNGNECKER of Ohio: The Wilson is almost a failure with us; I 

 would not exchange it for the Crescent today. We have an acre of straw- 

 berry plants mixed — I planted it to test the Crescent and the Wilson 

 together. They were not planted in rows, but they were mixed; the plants 

 were put in a basket and mixed up together and set. I think it was as 

 pretty a sight of strawberries at the time of the first picking as I ever 

 looked upon. The Wilson seemed to l)e larger (this was on a heavy clay 

 soil ) and the Crescent had a dark color, something peculiar to the Crescent 

 strawberry. In regard to the productiveness of the AVarfield, I have 

 regarded it as productive as the Crescent, and a far better shipper. 



Mr. Bogue: There is one thing I wish to say before we leave this 

 subject of small fruits; it strikes me that there must be a great many 

 varieties of raspberry, and only one has been mentioned ; and it would leave 

 the impression upon your records that that is about the only raspberry 

 worth growing. 



Mr. Longnecker : One reason that I passed that by in that way was that 

 other well-tested varieties are so familiar to many of our growers that I 

 thought it hardly worth while to speak of them. If I could not speak of a 

 new variety that has been widely tested and that is more reliable or more 

 profitable than the older varieties, I had as well not name it. 



A Member: I would like to ask about the Nemaha. 



Secretary Green: The Nemaha is an improved Gregg, with little varia- 



