64 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



DISCUSSION OF BLACKBERRIES. 



Mr. W. H. Vaugban — I have been cultivating the Early Harvest 

 for ten or twelve years and find no rust on it. 



I have a new berry I want to introduce to the Society. This is an 

 early berry; ripens about a week earlier than the Early Harvest; 

 ripens early like the Kansas. This is a new berry I found in a row of 

 Early Harvest and I set them out and cultivated them, and have a long 

 row of them now. Do not know whether they are something new or 

 not. They are a week earlier than the Early Harvest and about a third 

 larger, and I have never seen any appearance of rust during five years 

 that I have tried them. The Kittatinny and Lawton and other varieties 

 I have tried all rust. The Erie I got and set out a big patch in the 

 spring and plowed it up in the fall ; every plant in the field had rust on 

 it, nearly. This new berry does not rust. 



Q. What is the character of the new berry when it is ripe I 



A. It is firm enough to ship wel! ; it is not so firm as the Early 

 Harvest, it is the firmest berry we have, but this is a good firm berry ; 

 I had several crates of it last season here in market. 



I have the Taylor, Taylor Prolific it is called, the Stone's Hardy, 

 Erie, Minnewaski and one from Mr. Wiley. The Taylor is a very good 

 berry; now at this time the Minnewaski atid Erie are my choice. I do 

 not think that the Erie can be beat in any way. 



Mr. Zink — I have the Taylor, Knox, Early Harvest and the Maxwell 

 and the only rust I found in them was in the Early Harvest ; I got 

 about a dozen stalks of rust in the Early Harvest. The Maxwell is the 

 most prolific berry I ever saw in my life ; it is a large berry, sweet and 

 of good flavor, but I am afraid it is too soft for shipment. It is some- 

 what on the order of the dewberry, has a spreading bush, does not 

 grow upright, but I look for something grand from the Maxwell berry. 



Mr. Moseley — I would like to ask the Association for a preventative 

 or remedy for the blackberry rust. 



Prof. Steadraan — The Bordeaux mixture is the remedy that is used 

 in 99 cases out of a hundred, applied just as soon as you see the first 

 indications of rust ; it is not a curative but a preventative. 



Mr. Gilbert — I am growing a few of the Snyder, Tajlor and Early 

 Harvest. I have found five or six stalks of rust in the Early Harvest 

 but none in the others. The most important question with me is after 

 getting the fruit how to get the money out of it. 



Out of ten years' experience in growing Early Harvest 



Taylor and Snyder blackberries, I must eay I have never seen any 

 rust in either at my place, with ten years' experience in growing. 



