390 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



blackcap as we have in the catalogues. Bat Cuthbert and Shaffer 

 always kill back more or less. Golden Queen is the hardiest. Shaffer 

 is ideal for canning, so far as flavor is concerned. Grolden Queen is 

 too soft in the can. In all ways there is room yet for a great deal of 

 work in the way of raspberry improvement. We must try to combine 

 highest quality with entire hardiness and the prolific tendency of Cuth- 

 bert. Nor must we loose sight of bright color, and capacity to stand 

 in rows. Turner would be superb only it cannot bear fruit unless kept 

 in hills. 



Some of our fruits have at present too short a season. While we 

 can eat gooseberries and currants from July 1 to September 15, or 

 later, our raspberry season covers only three weeks. The black vari- 

 eties give us a much longer season. Grapes we can eat from August 

 10 till midwinter, and possibly the Alice will carry us on easily to 

 April E. P. Powell, New York, in Orange Judd Farmer. 



PEOGRBSS IN STRAWBERRY DEVELOPMENT. 



The improvement of the strawberry has been slow, but as Prof. 

 W. J. Green of the Ohio Experiment Station points out (Bulletin 85), 

 there has been progress nevertheless. No perfect berry for all pur- 

 poses has been produced but the intensification of desirable traits and 

 characteristics is going on continually. The station has grown thou- 

 sands of seedlings, but all have been discarded, although many were 

 more valuable than the majority of those offered for sale. While good 

 varieties are of .great importance to fruit-growers, there is danger of 

 making the variety question unduly prominent. It would be well to 

 give more attention to intensive culture, as there are but few crops 

 that offer greater inducements in this direction than the strawberry. 



The use of water for irrigating strawberries is another means of 

 intensive culture, especially during the season of fruiting. The con- 

 servation of moisture is best accomplished the first season by fall or 

 early plowing, and thorough cultivation. It is quite as necessary to 

 stir the soil after light as after heavy showers, even though no crust is 

 formed. 



The following are the most promising of the new varieties : 



Aroma, Anna Kennedy, Beauty, Copernicus, Clyde, Carrie, Enor- 

 mous, Glen Mary, Hall's Favorite, Portage,'Ruby, Rio, Staples, Tennes- 

 see Prolific. Of well known kinds that can be recommended for gen- 

 eral culttvation, Bubach, Brandywine, Greenville, Haverland, Lovett 

 and Wartield are the best. — Orange Judd Farmer. 



