48 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Rork: Could you give me the season of ripening of Suunj-side? 



Prof. Taft: That is about medium, coming in this year about four or 

 five days after Cyclone. Ours came all in a bunch, this year, so I can 

 hardly tell. It was not over six or seven days from the time we had our 

 first ones until the last ones were ripe. 



Mr. Kellogg: I wish to suggest that this year we are all at sea as to 

 varieties. 1 had over a hundred varieties to test and the cold weather 

 seemed to keep them back, but they all caught up and came in a huddle. 

 But Sunnyside is one of the latest berries and one of the most productive 

 we have and it is a grand companion to Kennedy. 



Mr. Rork: I would like to ask if you are testing Margaret? 



Prof. Taft: Yes, sir. 



Mr. Rork: How do you find it? 



Prof. Taft: I could hardly judge from the plant. It came to us late 

 last year, and it happened to be when the weather was very hot and dry, 

 but from the few i^lants we have carried through, and the appearance of 

 the fruit uji to this time, I think it is a very good kind. We have not had 

 a chance to test it thoroughly. 



Mr. Kellogg: I should call Margaret an improved Brandy wine. 



Mr. Rork: Did it ripen with Brandywine? 



Mr. Kellogg: Yes, sir, about the same season. I have not seen a berry 

 in many years that has pleased me so well as that. 



The President: I would like to ask Prof. Taft if among these new vari- 

 eties he has discovered anything he thinks is better for market than, we 

 will say, Warfield an Bubach and Lovett — that class of berries that 

 we have tested years. 



Prof. Taft : Nothing that I should put in above those half dozen kinds 

 which we all know are good, except, as I said before, I think that some of 

 these kinds, in certain locations, will be of more value than some of the 

 others, and I would advise the testing of a few of the kinds I have men- 

 tioned as being very promising. At the time I came away we were keep- 

 ing a careful watch of these; and among those I have mentioned, Cyclone 

 was way up at the head. Another one I should have mentioned, but 

 passed over, is Bisel, which showed up well. Haverland, Cyclone, 

 and Bisel were at the very head. These is no great difference in those 

 three kinds. Another kind which is very seldom catalogued, but which 

 Ave have grown for years and have always found productive, is Leroy. This 

 is of good color, productive, has a good growing plant, and is a good 

 shipper. 



]Mr. Harris: What would you recommend as a variety for yield, color, 

 and quality after canned or preserved? 



Prof. Taft: Perhaps T should not choose it from onr own results, so 

 far as the yield goes, but Lovett does very well, I think, for canning or 

 anything like that. 



Mr. Harris: How about Warfield? 



Prof. Taft: Warfield, so far as yield goes, I would put at the head in our 

 experience. 



Mr. Harris: And quality? 



