2q5 State Horticultural Society. 



Prof. Beach — Wyoming Red does not fertilize well alone, but Con- 

 cord and Niagara prove to be good pollinators. Lucille is as good and 

 a self-pollenizer. 



Mr. Chandler — Worden a failure with us. Variety most satisfactory 

 with us is the Concord. Wyoming Red has something on the roots that 

 I do not understand. 



Mr. Williams asked if manure would induce the rot. Mr. Espen- 

 laub had been detected in the act of applying manure to his vines and was 

 asked for an explanation. 



Mr. Espenlaub — Used manure because the soil was too poor without 

 it. 



Jacob Faith — 'Manure is valuable for all kinds of fruits, if used in 

 reasonable quantities, except pears. 



President Whitten — No disease is more easily controlled by spraying 

 than the black rot. At least we find this to be true upon the experiment 

 grounds. In South Missouri be sure to begin early and have plants well 

 coated before growth begins. Put on before growth begins, even. 



THE RASPBERRY AND GOOSEBERRY. 



(Z. M. Hampton, Oentralia, Mo.) 



Centralia, Mo., is my home town, in what is known as the Grand 

 Prairie, and is 124 miles west of St. Louis, and 149 miles east of Kansas 

 City ; situated on the Wabash and the Chicago & Alton railroads. Out in 

 the prairie we have a black loam soil with a clay sub-soil of a non-porous 

 nature. The surface of the land is known as flat land or flat prairie, and 

 moderately productive. Corn and oats are the chief agricultural produc- 

 tions, there being very little or no wheat, rye or other grains raised, and 

 up to 1895 there was very little attention paid to horticulture, except the 

 family garden, and that was planted and cultivated by the good housewife. 

 Usually the garden was plowed or spaded by the husband at a time most 

 suited to his convenience, it being of secondary importance to the agri- 

 cultural pursuits, which first commanded his time and attention. 



About the year of 1895, I having left the farm some few years before 

 and moved to town, had begun the practice of medicine, and as a source 

 of recreation, pleasure and profit, wife and I decided to set our little place 

 in small fruit. So we decided, among other kinds, to give raspberries 

 and gooseberries a portion of our small space of ground among many 

 kinds of small fruits. We realized that to succeed with so many things 

 on such a small place, the soil should be brought up to the highest point 



