390 State Horticultural Society. 



we have a poor year we find the same results ou the entire row. If there 

 really was anything in this pedigree plant fad we would find, perhaps, 

 several feet of well fruited, then a few feet badly fruited plants, and so 

 on, but in my twenty years of berry growing, I find w^ien part of a row 

 is good it is all good, and vice versa. Of course, some years some variety 

 fails while others succeed. 



I don't want to be understood as advocating the planting of small, 

 scrubby plants taken from old beds, but if young, healthy plants are 

 selected from one-year-old beds, they will not detoriate and one can do 

 his own preeding up by proper fertilization and cultivation. 



Just one word more about our expert pedigree growers: They tell 

 us that "a. plant that is weakened by letting it produce fruit is not fit to 

 grow plants from." Then, on the other hand, they say that they "grow 

 their plants only from those that produce the finest and largest berries, 

 and thereby improve the variety by weeding out all the detoriated ones." 

 My detoriated idea is that as long as one gets large, strong, well-rooted 

 plants, they are not detoriated and need no breeding up, only as I have 

 stated by proper fertilization and the best of cultivation. — H. Schnell, 

 Howard county, Missouri. 



