EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 33 L 



8TEAWBERRIE8 AND RASPBERRIES. 



BY L. R. TAFT AND H. P. GLADDEN. 



Bulletin No. 106. — Horticultural Department. 



The variety tests of the above fruits have been quite successful the past 

 season, and we trust the results will be found useful. The soil upon which 

 they have been grown is of a sandy nature, but it contains a considerable 

 amount of clay; before the plants were set, it was well enriched with stable 

 manure, and the "raspberries were mulched with that material the winter 

 after setting. A mulch of straw and marsh hay was given the strawberries 

 late in the fall of 1892 and, just as growth was starting in the spring, it 

 was removed, to admit of the cultivating and loosening of the soil between 

 the rows, and was then replaced to act as a mulch and keep the berries 

 clean. The strawberries from which the notes were taken were set in the 

 spring of 1892, although we had another plantation, of most of the older 

 sorts, made in 1891, which we used for comparison. The raspberries were 

 for the most part set in 1890 and 1891 ; a few, however, of the newer sorts 

 were not obtained until 1892. 



The season was very favorable for the strawberry crop, although it was 

 somewhat cut short by leaf blight and hot weather; the raspberries were 

 considerably injured by the winter and the crop of berries was lessened by 

 the hot, dry weather of July. 



The data for the tables were obtained by or under the direction of Mr. 

 Gladden, and many of the notes were prepared by him. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



In August a bulletin was issued containing the notes on eighty new 

 varieties, that fruited for the first time the past season. In the table below, 

 the varieties marked with an asterisk (*), are those described in that 

 bulletin, and any one wishing for a further description of those sorts, 

 except the few that are here given, is referred to Bulletin No. 100. 



