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the same species as the other. The trouble seems to be that there is only an occasional 

 crop produced. 



"Mr. Taylor — We have heard about the dewberry bearing regularly. In 1856, when 

 I came to Minnesota, in the section of country where I live, there were no black- 

 berries for eight or ten years. About 1865 in the vicinity of Porrestville they were very 

 numerous, and people would come from miles around to gather them. But there have 

 been none to amount to anything since, either cultivated or any other way; so the 

 dewberry is not an exception in that respect. 



"Mr. Harris — I think the reason why the crop is a failure in that locality is that it is 

 not as favorable as in some others. In our county last year dewberries were so plenti- 

 ful as to spoil the market for tame berries. They produced so profusely that we 

 could not get rid of our tame ones at living prices. 



"Mr. Pearse — I think there will be no difficulty in growing the dewberry successfully 

 all over the state." 



In the revised fruit list for 1889 adopted by the Minnesota society, Windom and 

 Lucretia dewberries are recommended for trial. 



Professor Keffer, horticulturist of the South Dakota experiment station, speaks 

 as follows of the dewberry: "This is a trailing form of the blackberry, and where it 

 can be sheltered from the hot summer winds it should prove successful. The Windom 

 originated in southwest Minnesota. It was loaded with fruit on the station grounds 

 last season, but the plants were fully exposed to the wind and sunshine and compara- 

 tively few fruits matured. The mature fruit resembles the blackberry in size and 

 flavor. It is a promising fruit for South Dakota if covered in winter and planted in a 

 protected place." Professor C. B. Waldron, in speaking of dewberries in Bulletin 2 

 of the North Dakota experiment station, does not mention Windom, but says; " The 

 one variety of this [dewberry] to be recommended is the Lucretia." 



The Windom has not been tested outside the northwestern states to any extent. W. 

 J. Green of the Ohio experiment station, made the following report of it in 1888: 

 "Not fully tested, but the plants are quite healthy and prolific. On young plants the 

 berries are somewhat lacking in size but are said to improve in this particular as the 

 plants attain age. There seems to be no reason to doubt its hardiness." Mr. Green 

 w r rites me recently that the variety " has the fault of not filling out the fruit, nearly all 

 the berries being nubbins." / 



T. T. Lyon reports the following observations upon the Windom in southwestern 

 Michigan: Earliest bloom, June 15; vigor, 4 (in a scale of ten, in which the Lucretia 

 stands 5); size, 4? (Lucretia 10). I saw the variety growing in Mr. Lyon's grounds last 

 summer, in sun in sandy soil, and it appeared to possess only indifferent merit, at best. 



P. L. Wright, Plainfield, Michigan, sends me a cane of the Windom taken Nov. 12, 

 which is full of flower buds. He writes: "The leaves are nearly all gone and the canes 

 are loaded with buds, and there are some flowers." He says that the Windom is with 

 him the heaviest cropper of all the dewberries and is the best of all except Lucretia. 



Professor Troop maks some observations for Indiana upon Lucretia and Windom, 

 and I combine them below, together with records of a couple blackberries for 

 comparison : 



Variety. 



Lucretia. 1389 



1890 

 Windom, 1889 



1890 

 Early Harvest, 1889 



1890 

 Snyder, 1889 



1890 



Firm- 

 ness. 



These figures place the Windom low in all desirable points for Indiana. No indica- 

 tions are given of the kind of soil upon which they grew or the treatment they 

 received. 



Prom the foregoing evidence we must conclude that the Windom dewberry possesses 

 promise, particularly for the northwest, that it demands a partially shady location, that 

 it often fails to set fruit and sometimes produces nubbins or imperfect berries. It is 

 often profitable, but further experience is necessary to determine the best methods of 

 managing it under all conditions. 



