208 TRANSACTIONS OF THE ALTON-SOUTHERN 



VEGETABLES. 



Mr. Browne recommended Lee's Favorite potato as very early, 

 prolific and tine quality. The season has been favorable for the po- 

 tato and the crop is large and quality never better, Mr. Browne 

 recommended the Early Snowball cauliflower as the best; said it 

 was no more difficult to raise celery than cabbage; the plants 

 should be transplanted several times before planting or have the tops 

 cut off. Plant the latter part of July or August. 



SMALL FRUITS. 



Mr. Jackson reported unfavorably on Crimson Beauty rasp- 

 berry; had plowed his up. 



Mr. Riehl said the price of red raspberries had fallen so low 

 that it did not pay to grow them; they cost more to grow and to 

 pick, yet were selling for about the same as black caps. The reason 

 no doubt was the poor quality of the varieties grown. In former 

 days when the Antwerps and Belle d' Fontenay were grown, people 

 thought there was no finer fruit than red raspberries and were will- 

 ing to pay a good price. Later, when the more hardy and produc- 

 tive Philadelphia and Brandywine came out, growers planted them 

 because they were hardy and productive, and consumers bought them 

 because they were red raspberries, but they have been disappointed 

 in the quality, and now there are many who say that black cap rasp- 

 berries are better than the red, and they are about right. The blacks 

 have been improved, while the quality of the reds has deteriorated 

 very much. 



" THE MISTAKES AND DISAPPOINTMENTS OF 

 HORTICULTURISTS." 



Mr. Browne read an extract from a paper by Mr. A. L. Hay, 

 page 237, Report Illinois State Horticultural Society for 1885, as ex- 

 pressing his views and saying it better than he could. 



Mr. Jackson read the following: 



Mr. Presideyit: I have in the past been very much troubled 

 to find a subject for a report, but I must admit that half of the sub- 

 ject given by the Secretary would have been enough for me at the 

 present time. 



The ''disappointments" of the horticulturists for this season 

 have been many, and at the summing up of the profits and losses at 



