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and a plant that will perfect every berry it sets. Can we make a plants 

 by feedino^ and watering it, perfect all its berries ? 



B. F. Smith — Some varieties I have grown have matured every 

 bloom into a berry. I think that Capt. Jack and Miner are two that will 

 come as near ripening every berry as any I know. There are some 

 varieties that never will ; Parker Earle is one of them. I applied 

 more water to Parker Earle than to any other kind, but it would not 

 ripen its berries. The last berries don't color up. The ground was 

 heavily fertilized and I gave it all the water necessary. I gave it two 

 extra waterings. Muskingum matured every berry. Wolverton the 

 same. Haverland will not mature all the berries it sets. 1 don't think 

 the gentleman will ever find anything that will make the Parker Earle 

 bring every berry to perfection. 



S. W. Gilbert — I have counted 260 berries on one plant of Parker 

 Earle. I don't believe it brings one-half of them to perfection. Can 

 we make it bring more of them to maturity and have them good size f 

 Even 150 berries to the plant might make a gallon if they were of 

 large ^ize. What can we feed the plant to make it do better 1 Will 

 firm varieties for fertilizers make soft pistillates fir'aer ? 



L. A. Goodman — It will not do so. It will influence the seed only. 

 As to feeding the plant, the first trouble is to get them well pollenized.. 

 If well pollenized and supplied with food and water, it will mature its 

 fruit even to killing itself. 



S. W. Gilbert — Is it sufficient to use Gandy and Capt. Jack to 

 fertilize Parker Earle ? 



B. F. Smith — Parker Earle is a pollenizer, but it has not sufiicient 

 roots to carry to maturity its enormous crop. 



Mr. Holsinger — Is it not a fact that the strawberry fails when the 

 season is too rainy at blooming time, and does well when it is dry at 

 that time ? The last berries are always small, whatever the season. 

 Large berries don't carry well. I thought I was out of the raspberry- 

 business. I dug up my plants, thinking the anthracnose had put an 

 end to profit in growing them. A neighbor planted the bushes I dug 

 up. They made a fine growth. The anthracnose did not appear, and 

 now he has a fine prospect for the next crop. I would like to know 

 if a man is justified in planting eight acres of the Kansas raspberry f 

 I think it ripens its crop in a very short time. 



Mr. Baxter — The Parker Earle is a good fertilizer, bat something 

 else is required. You must have a strong, vigorous plant, in addition 

 to all the pollen needed, if you wish to make flue berries and a large 

 crop. This year the late freeze in March, after the plants had begun ta 

 grow, killed the roots and the plants had to push out new roots. We 



