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and I let those run so as to make a fall row of each and I have now 

 about thirty varieties, a row about seventy-five yards long of each^ 

 Among all these twenty-five or thirty varieties the Clyde is the 

 most promising, quite large and productive, I can go in there and get 

 a box of fine berries in a very short time ; and the Ruby which has not 

 been mentioned yet I expect to cultivate extensively next year. The 

 Parker Earle with me is the berry, and if I can't grow ten thousand 

 quarts to the acre I will quit growing berries. I have plants there 

 that last year made quite a number of runners and a quart of berries 

 to the plant. I want the early runners; I have known plants set out 

 last fall have a handfall of berries on them, and plants that I could 

 hardly cover with a half bushtl, they have run out and made rows of 

 runners and these are runners I am going to take ; I use for fertilizer 

 barnyard manure, hen manure and ashes. 



By Mr. Gilbert — I have a few Clyde plants in bearing; they are 

 not satisfactory with me at all. 



The Clyde is a perfect bloomer. 



By Prof. Whitten — Among the seedling varieties there are at least 

 30 very promising ones, a number of them were selected several years 

 ago and when only one parent from which they came was known. 



There are two varieties at least which are doing much better than 

 many where both parents were known. We have 180 varieties recom- 

 mended throughout the State that we have tried side by side ; now as 

 to the seedling strawberries ; two of the seedlings are considerably 

 ahead of any that we could get hold of, and there are half dozen at 

 least that are equally as good as many others. Some of them have not 

 been tested enough as yet for us to say absolutely what they will 

 prove ; some have been sent out to prominent strawberry growers in 

 the State who have promised to test them and send reports to us, and 

 we hope to have an account at the winter meeting of how these berries 

 do. 



There is one point of interest in regard to those berries where 

 both parents were known, and that is this : that out of several crosses 

 that were made, the Crescent crossed with the Sharpless gave the 

 largest percentage, by far, of good varieties. Out of about 80 plants 

 crossed with the Sharpless there were very few that were not good ; 

 out of an;^ other cross that were made it was the exception instead of 

 the rule that any of them were very good ; the Crescent crossed with 

 the Sharpless was a very good cross indeed. 



By Mr. Williams — About that Clyde berry spoken of a few minutes 

 ago — while I do not wish to claim any notoriety or anything of thfst 

 kind at all, I just wish to state my experience with a berry called the 



