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Scarlet Globe, — ripening with the foregoing, — is a lAant of mediuui vigor 

 and only moderuteh^ productive, carrying its fruit -well up on long stems. Fruit 

 large and acid. 



Ida seems to possess the quality of producing an unusual quantity of wood, 

 and sets a large amount of fruit Avhich is carried Avell up from tJie ground, buc 

 the specimens are small and rather acid. I found the first ripe fruit of this ou 

 June Gth. It can hardly be considered valuable, at least for this locality. 



Michigan showed a few ripe berries on the l(3th. There are few more vigor- 

 ous and liealthy plants than this, and it shows a high degree of ))roductiveness, 

 the quality of fruit set being very large. The fruits are of fair size, about as 

 large as Wilson, and the quality medium. With greater firmness of berry and 

 higher color it might aspire to become a leading market fruit. The st'^ms are 

 tall, holding the fruit well up from the ground. 



Golden Perpetual is a strong growing variety with small and few berries, 

 which possesses the very unusual peculiarity — indeed, so far as I know, confined 

 to this variety so far as its class is concerned, — of producing fruit in succession, 

 through the season, the runners frequently before rooting pushing up and 

 maturing a cluster of fruit, and continuing this process till arrested by the 

 frosts of autumn. So far it appears to be a thin bearer, and to be chiefly valu- 

 able as a curiosity or as the possible parent of something more desirable in this 

 particular direction. 



Seneca Chief commenced to show ripe berries on the ISth. The plant is a 

 very strong grower, and bears its fruit on stout stems of more than medium 

 height. Tiie fruit is large, firm, very rich, and of high flavor. It Avas, last 

 year, brought into the Kalamazoo and South Haven markets of exceedingly 

 large size, and it is claimed to be very productive, a claim that seems quite 

 likely to be sustained here. 



President AVilder, somewhat unexpectedly, is not yet (18th) fully ripe, it re- 

 quiring two or three days yet to mature its first fruits. My experience with it 

 hitherto seems to indicate that it does best on strong soils, and the fact that I 

 have not planted it on such may at least in part account for the tardiness of 

 its ripening. 



A large number of the still newer sorts have only been planted the past 

 spring, and nothing reliable can be said respecting them from our own experi- 

 ence or observation. 



Wilson, Jucunda, and Triomphe de Gande, have only been planted on our 

 grounds the present season, and hence are not in condition to be compared with 

 those noted. We learn, however, that the Wilson made its appearance in our 

 local market, of home growth, about the 7th or 8th of June. 



Prof. Beal. — I have been watching with a good deal of interest several of the 

 newer sorts, and the Matilda pleases me exceedingly. The Seneca Chief is a 

 very good colored berry, ripens evenly, and of excellent quality ; the Monarch 

 of the West is very large and productive, but seems to be quite uneven in its 

 ripening, that is the tip of the berry will be green a long time after the base is 

 fit to cat. I am satisfied with the success we have attained in the size of ber- 

 ries, and think we need to look more to the form and color; Ave wish a high 

 colored berry of medium size and comely form to sell Avell. It is Avell worth the 

 while for those bringing out new sorts to bear this in mind. For my own part 

 I am not attracted by irregular berries, no matter how large they may be. 



Mr. Thompson. — I wish to say a few Avords from the standpoint of a con- 



