TRANSACTIONS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NORTHERN ILL. 395 



Mk. McWhorter — I don't want Hartford Prolific. 



Mr. WiER — We use grapes chiefly for culinary purposes, and like the 

 Janesville, Concord and Ives. The foxiness of flavor passes off" in cook- 

 ing. I think there will be an increasing demand for grapes for culinary 

 purposes. 



Dr. Ennis — Delaware does quite well on the Mississippi bluff's, but 

 Rogers' Hybrids we find deficient in foliage ; our main dependence is 

 the Concord, for which we get about four dollars per hundred pounds. 

 I agree with Mr. Wier, that the chief value of grapes is for culinary uses. 



HOW TO CAN GRAPES. 



Mr. McWhorter gave his method of canning grapes, as follows : 

 Clip the grapes from the bunch, when fully ripe, with a scissors, letting 

 them fall into the can, until full ; then set the can in a kettle of water, 

 and gradually heat to about the boiling point ; then put in a hot, thin 

 syrup, made of the best sugar, until full, and seal up immediately. In 

 this way few berries break, and they keep nicely. 



On motion of the Secretary, the 



CULTIVATION OF RASPBERRIES 



Was next taken up, and he was asked for his experience. 



Mr. Gallsha — I have cultivated raspberries, more or less, in Grundy 

 county, for about fifteen years, and have always found that good culture, 

 with mulchings of manure, applied after a thorough cultivation, given just 

 after gathering the fruit, always pays well. The mulch should consist of 

 barn-yard or stable manure, and should remain on the ground over winter. 

 If the ground is very rich, this may be applied only once in two or three 

 years. I have practiced pinching back the young canes twice to three 

 and a half or four feet, upon the Philadelphias, about the time of the 

 ripening of the fruit. This makes the young canes grow stout and throw 

 out laterals, which produce bountifully the succeeding year. The black- 

 caps I have usually pruned in the spring. Perhaps the manure and good 

 cultivation does not increase the Jiitmber of the berries, but it does 

 increase largely their size and pulpiness, and, of course, the yield in 

 number of quarts. 



Mr. Nelson — I agree with Mr. Galusha in reference to the value of 

 high cultivation, but my practice in pruning is different. I prune in the 

 spring, cutting back the canes to from three to five feet, and they then 

 produce fruit all the way from near the grcwnd to the tops. I culti- 

 vate as soon as the fruit is gathered — not before. 



