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think the best for the reds. Eich land stimuhites them too much, 

 causing a rank, spongy growth which sometimes caitses them to be 

 injured by our hard, severe winters. I would say about the same 

 kind of location for the red as the black. Cuthbert and Thwack are 

 the best varieties I have tested. The Cuthbert is a fine large berry 

 of good quality. Plant a little tender here, but sells well. The 

 Thwack is a very hardy plant, the best shipper we have, quality 

 rather poor, quite productive! With my experience of fifteen 

 years there has not been a failure in the crop of raspberries. I con- 

 sider it the most certain of all the fruits, and the most profitable 

 next to the strawberry. Its consumption will keep pace with the 

 rapidly increasing population of the great metropolis of the "^new 

 west." There is very little danger of overstocking the market with 

 good berries well handled. 



Discussiox. 



Charles Patterson: — Has the largest berries on the richest 

 ground. 



/. X. Menifee: — Has been testing many new varieties. Hansel 

 was very fine and very early, and they were all red with ripe fruit 

 before the Turner began to turn. Cuthbert is the best for market 

 and comes in just after the Hansel. 



Black Caps, Souhegan is the best thus far. Perfectly hardy 

 and has the finest berries of all. 



Hopkins and Gregg are also Xo. 1. Tyler are very fine also. 

 Souhegan all ripen close together and are the best for close market. 



The Snyder and Taylor blackberry are the best. Snyder are 

 hardy and have never failed to bear. Taylor follows after the 

 Snyder. 



G. W. Ropkin.^ : — Thinks that it is a fault to have the berries 

 all ripen at once. 



F. Holsinger : — The Gregg is the poorest of all with him. As 

 for a red I find the Thwack the best of all. 



W. H. Thomas : — Finds Doolittle one of his best berries and 

 ripens gradually, and never fails to bear. Trims back the tops and 

 cuts the laterals three or four times, and finds that it makes a fine 

 bush and never fails to bear. Has not the Ho^Dkins or Gregg. 



J. A. Durkes : — Asks about the Caroline. He finds it a verv 

 good berry. 



L. A. Goodman: — Says with him, and with all the fruit 

 growers about Kansas City, their berries would never bear at all, if 

 they were trimmed as suggested by W. H. Thomas. 



