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I will place next to it the McCormick, which has been sent out by 

 Mr. Purdy as the mammoth cluster. It is a week later than the Doolittle, 

 will produce a third more than that variety, and is a somewhat larger, 

 better market berry. 



The Turner raspberry, of which I planted a thousand, in the spring 

 of 1872, is a most delicious fruit. It endured the winter about the same 

 as Philadelphia, and bore a fair crop this year. The berry is as large as 

 the Philadalphia, but not as firm ; hence, I think not as good for market. 

 It is a most inveterate sprouter — as bad as any of the blackberries — yet I 

 don't regard this habit of throwing up suckers as a very serious objection, 

 for the young suckers are so easily destroyed by the plow and hoe. Full)' 

 half of my plants failed to live when planted, and my men have given the 

 plantation such good cultivation this year that I have not half enough 

 suckers to fill the vacancies. From the limited experience I have had with 

 this variety, I am inclined to think it is one of the very best to raise for 

 family use ; but, of course, the suckers must be treated as weeds — 

 destroyed. 



Mr. Nelson — After hearing Mr. Galusha's description of the spuri- 

 ous Philadelphias, I can understand why I have not appreciated this vari- 

 ety, which is so highly praised — I have had the spurious kind — little bits 

 of berries, which would fall to pieces in picking. 



I have grown the Turner, and I think a great deal of it, after a trial 

 of two or three years. It is certainly the finest berry when packed. I 

 took half a dozen or dozen boxes to town one day, with some other fruit, 

 and a dealer said to me : " How much do you ask for those beautiful 

 berries?" I said : " Well, twenty-five or thirty cents a quart. " He 

 said: "I will take them." They sprout a great deal, but the sprouts 

 are easily killed. The longer I have this berry, the more I think of it. 

 Each year it increases in bearing. The largest crop of berries that I ever 

 had of any kind, according to the number of plants, has been of this 

 Turner. 



I got a little idea about training them from a gentleman in Odell. 

 His plan was to gather up four or five canes, and tie them together with 

 twine, about three feet high, and cut them off about an inch above the 

 twine ; and treated this way, are the prettiest sight you ever saw ; the)- 

 stand there, loaded with fruit from the ground up, and look very beauti- 

 ful indeed. Last year I tied a few by way of experiment, and it seems to 

 me that those I tied up bore a great many more berries than the others. 



Mr. Galusha — I see Mr. Baldwin before us. He sent this variety 

 out, and has given it to us at a moderate price — so different in that 



