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numbers, was uniformity in size. Tiierc were no enormously large specimens 

 and no small, but all large. The color was bright, deepening from scarlet iu 

 those just coloring to crimson in those fully ripe. The form is nearly round 

 •with a slight tendency to conical. A milk pan full of these berries which had 

 just been picked on another plantation which we visited the next day were a 

 fine sight to behold. All large, bright, handsome, no need of topping off. 



Now as to the quality of the berry. Eaten when it first reddens it has a 

 quite sharp acid taste, modified by the jiresence of a large proportion of sugar, 

 reminding you of sour fruit preserved in sugar. It gives it a lively flavor very 

 different from the dull sour of many kinds of strawberries. Now select one 

 that has assumed a crimson hue and the sugar has so gained upon the acid as 

 to give you quite a sweet, sprightly, high-flavored berry — a berry of which you 

 could eat many without their palling upon the sense. As to firmness, while less 

 firm than Wilson or Triomphe, those highest types of firmness in strawberries, 

 it would compare favorably, we should think, with most other varieties. We 

 never yet had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with another strawberry 

 that would bear the handling and keeping of the old Triomphe, and we fear 

 we shall have to wait a long time before we see another like it. 



THE TURNER. 



Hon. Parker Earje thinks the raspberry to take the place of the Turner as a 

 reliable market berry, in all soils and latitudes, has probably not yet been intro- 

 duced. When it comes it must possess wonderful excellence. He suspects that if 

 a syndicate of Jersey nurserymen were now bringing out the Turner, more fine 



and yet true things would be said of it than we commonly read in catalogues. 

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Farmer and Fruit Grower of Anna, Illinois, seems to be of the same opinion, 

 for it remarks: When properly cultivated and properly handled, the Turner 

 has ])roved most decidedly the best red raspberry for either home or distant 

 markets. It has every needed quality except firmness, and if picked at the 

 right time it is firm enough to send 500 miles in perfect order. Our growers 

 ship them from this station to Chicago, Milwaukee, Dubuque,and more remote 

 points, without hesitation. 



THE TYLER BLACK-CAP. 



J. E. Burr, of Cayuga county, N. Y., writes to the Indiana Farmer : 

 "Among all the new candidates for public favor this raspberry is, I think, 

 one of the most valuable that has yet been introduced. It is a Black-Cap, 

 originating in this State, and has been quietly planted and grown here for a 

 number of years past. One large iVuit-grower near has several acres of it in 

 bearing, claiming that it is by far the most profitable sort he can raise, and 

 several others have planted it almost exclusively the past j-ear or two. One of 

 its chief points of value lies in its earliness, it being as early or earlier than 

 either Doolittle or Davidson's Thornless. It will average as large or larger 

 than Mammoth Cluster, in fact, I have seen many of its berries as large as the 

 largest Gregg I ever saw. It is the handsomest jet blackberry I have ever 

 seen, there being scarcely a trace of bloom on them, while the seeds are 



