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is a good growing plant, and usually very productive and of good quality. 



The other kind that I mentioned as being of Michigan origin is from 

 a man named Kyle. It is named Kyle No. 1 and is from Berrien county. 

 It is quite i^roductive, is a very firm variety, and I think it would do well 

 for market purposes. 



We have another kind, Anna Kennedy. It was planted last year for 

 the first time, and that also seems very promising. 



Among other kinds that show somewhat differently from these, and 

 which have been very highly praised, is Arrow, and this is a variety that 

 is somewhat extended in bearing, even more so than Cyclone, and it 

 also seems very productive, but the color is perhaps a little too dark. I 

 could hardly tell at the time I looked at it last, but it seemed almost 

 as dark, for instance, as this one I have here. Leader, which is a little 

 too dark, perhaps, for market. 



Another variety that has shown very well and comes in at about the 

 same season, is a kind from Kansas known as Apache. This stands next 

 to Cyclone and one or two of the older kinds, and is the most pro- 

 ductive kind we have had of these new sorts. It is of a light color, the 

 berries are not very large, but of good fair size. 



Of the larger sorts, the variety known as Enormous has perhaps 

 attracted attention as much as anything else. This is a variety that, 

 so far as its size goes, is rather larger than Marshall, and with us is 

 more regular and a better variety. Speaking of Marshall, I see it is 

 exhibited here and that there is also a very fine crate here of the variety. 

 I would say that it is a valuable sort in many places; but, as I have been 

 around the state during the last week or so, I find it is only here and there 

 that it is of any value; and, as has been proved way back in its old 

 home, Massachusetts, and in most places here, drouth or leaf-blight will 

 so weaken the plant that it does not develop its fruit properly, and this 

 year our crop of this kind is almost a failure. 



The Secretary: Did you do anything to counteract blight? Will 

 spraying do it? 



Prof. Taft : Spraying will largely keep it in control. 



Mr. Rork: Is it not also very susceptible to winter's cold and early 

 frosts, killing the buds? 



Prof. Taft: I have not seen anything of that; no, sir. I should think 

 it would be, from the nature of the plant, but I have not noticed anything 

 of it ; in fact, I saw no harm to any variety this year or last. Of course, 

 the previous year all our plants were injured in that way. 



Another kind that is also promising is Sunnyside, also coming from 

 Massachusetts. Tliis is a large variety with a very good plant. I think 

 it certainly is well worthy of being placed among the promising new 

 kinds. 



We come then to two other kinds that are something alike and yet 

 different, Mary and Glen Mary. They are both large varieties, and where 

 one has a liking for large fruit I think they are certainly of much promise. 



Another kind that we are testing, that conld have been mentioned 

 with the others of medium size and of somewhat conical form, is a seed- 

 ling from a large plant-grower of Virginia, M. T. Thompson, which is 

 called Thompson 40. We have tested a large number of his seed- 

 lings and this is perhaps tlio best of all. It certainly is a very healthy, 

 productive variety, and is, I think, worthy of trial. 



