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possess other qualifications calculated to render them useful as market 

 varieties, and probably also as pollenizers. 



Sharpless, b. Only slightly deficient productiveness seems to prevent 

 this variety from assuming a leading position, both as a family and 

 market berry. 



Shuster, b., is by no means up to the standard, although it appears to 

 be popular at the east, where it originated. 



Southard, b., is but partially tested here. So far, it gives indications of 

 possible, perhaps probable, success. 



Splendid, b., is not yet well tested. So far, it affords but slight indica- 

 tions of value. 



Speece, b., Stayman 1, p., and Stayman 2, p., all from Kansas, are pro- 

 ductive and promising, though, so far, scarcely up to modern requirements. 



Swindle, p. This name may, very possibly, have been chosen under the 

 rule of contraries, to aid sales. So far, there is too much apparent occa- 

 sion to fear that it may be found appropriate to the case. 



Thompson 31, p., and Thompson 34, p., have now been on trial here 

 several years. They have this year done better than ever before, but 

 will now be dropped. 



Tippecanoe, b., has also exceeded itself this year, but is, even yet, lack- 

 ing in productiveness. 



Triomphe (de Gand), b., a very old European variety, is now nearly or 

 quite out of use. 



Townsend 19, p., and Townsend 20, p., are doing better this year than 

 heretofore, the former especially so. If thought worthy to be dissemin- 

 ated, they should receive names. 



Vernon (Mt. Vernon), b., once popular, is now nearly or quite 

 superseded. 



Vick, b., although hardy and vigorous, is rather deficient in size, and 

 is now rarely planted. 



Warfield, p., is too generally known and valued to require characteriza- 

 tion. The plants should not be allowed to become crowded in the row. 



Wilson, b., appears to be going out of use, and has been retained here 

 mainly as a means of comparison. When allowed to fully ripen upon the 

 plant, it has few, if any, superiors, so far as high quality is concerned. Its 

 liability to disease of the foliage is the most serious fault, and this is 

 readily held in check by the use of Bordeaux mixture. 



RASPBERRIES (Rubus). 



For the purpose of avoiding, so far as practicable, the intermixing of 

 varieties, through the running together of suckers, the suckering rasp- 

 berry plats have been planted alternately with non-suckering varieties and 

 with blackberries. 



Since the injury consequent upon the extremely wet spring of 1892, it 

 has proved impossible to re-secure a sufficiently even stand of plants, of 

 most varieties, to justify a statement of relative values based upon the 

 amounts of fruit yielded by each plat. Estimates, based upon comparisons 

 of the products of average plants, expressed upon the scale of one to ten, 

 have therefore been resorted to. 



The only insect depredations observed during the season have been 

 those of the Leaf Miner {Tischeria malifoliella — Clemens)? (See 



