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STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



RASPBERRIES, 

 VARIETIES OF OCCIDENTALIS AND SUPPOSED HYBRIDS — 



Earhart, disseminated by Connecticut iDarties, several seasons since, is 

 probably the most valuable of the varieties classed as everbearing, produc- 

 ing a light crop, upon the last year's canes, at the usual season; and a 

 second fair crop, in September and October, upon a portion of the canes 

 of the same season's growth. It is desirable mainly on account of such 

 second crop, which continues to ripen until ruined by frost. 



Beebe is really golden and beautiful, when taken at just the right stage;, 

 but when past such stage, the color rapidly changes to a forbidding, dirty 

 brown, with loss of flavor, unfitting it to appear upon the table. 



Centennial has useful qualities as a medium season, market variety, but 

 it is, in no special sense, superior to other varieties of similar season, 



Indiana, a comparatively recent origination, from the state of that name, 

 is, like the foregoing, an average medium season variety. 



Johnston's Sweet, a seedling from western New York, ripens slightly 

 after the medium season. It is very productive, of medium-size, mild 

 flavored fruit. It is quite seedy and, doubtless for that reason, yields 

 better than average returns when dried. 



Ohio is yet another variety specially valued for drying, doubtless for a 

 similar reason. 



Shaffer is an unusually vigorous grower for even one of this class. 

 Doubtless on account of the color of the fruit, many persons have assumed 



