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The James Vick has a very pretty berry, highly colored and of 

 good flavor. The plant is a vigorous grower, very healthy, and pro- 

 duces lots of runners and lots of bloom; but the later blooms seldom 

 set fruit, so it is a poor cropper. The fruit stems are very tough, 

 and they seem to separate from the berry more easily than in most 

 other kinds, so it is hard to get all of them picked with stems on. 



The Capt. Jack produces fewer runners and fewer blooms than 

 the Vick, but it sets more fruit. The fruit stems are tough, as in 

 the Vick. 



The Kentucky is a late berry, and that is its only recommenda- 

 tion. It does not bear a large crop at any time, and this year it was 

 not worth picking. It rusts rather badly and is not a very good 

 grower. 



The Wilson with us is not a strong grower. Under our system 

 of keeping the same bed several years, and cultivating each year, the 

 Wilson rows will, in three or four years, be half gone, while most of 

 the others remain full. 



The Glendale is another that does not stand the "year after 

 year" system very well. The plants rust too much, the calyx is too 

 large and is apt to be dead by the time the berry is ripe, and the 

 point of the berry stays green too long. It is of good quality, bears 

 very ^^ell most years, but don't sell well. 



The Longfellow is a very pretty berry; of fair quality, but it is 

 worse than the Sharpless about ripening, the lower side remaining 

 green after the upper is fully turned. The plants produce but few 

 runners. Only one kind, the Old Ironclad, is hurt any worse by the 

 drouth of this summer. 



The Jersey Queen is a very good grower, comparatively free 

 from rust, does not produce many berries, but they are of good size 

 and fair quality. 



Sucker State is free from rust, and a very strong grower, but the 

 fruit is not very notable for anything. If I had it growing with a 

 lot of seedlings,! certainly should not pick it out as one to be saved. 



The Charles Downing is not very vigorous, and shows rather too 

 much rust. The berries are of medium size, very good; not much of 

 a crop this year. Some years it bears a good crop, but never any- 

 thing like Crescent. 



Windsor Chief with us is a very weak grower, and does not pro- 

 duce much of a crop, though Mr. Thompson has been growing it in 

 his white timber soil with considerable success. 



"«■ V^Old Ironclad stands the winters well, is a strong grower, and 

 free from disease. A medium-sized berry of good quality, but not 

 enough of them. The plants at present are nearly all dead from the 

 drouth. They are affected worse than any of the rest. 



Bubach's No. 5 I have been a little disappointed in. With the 

 same treatment, it was no larger than Sharpless or Jersey Queen, or 

 Glendale, and did not produce any more fruit than Sharpless. It 



