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are showing the same thing this season. June 19th I picked the 

 first ripe Hansel ; this is also an excellent berry, and only a few 

 days behind the earliest. Turner is turning red and will be ripen- 

 ing some berries in a few days. And Lost Rubies are bowing their 

 iieads to me with tlie central berry ripe here and there ; the largest 

 of all now ripe, and of excellent flavor. Thwack and Colossal 

 quite green yet. All these passed tlirough the severe winter and 

 are bearing a good crop. 



BLACK CAPS. 



Centennial first ripe, June 16th, Souhegan and Burns a few 

 days later. These are all three valuable varieties. Centennial is 

 the largest, more convenient than the others, and a shining black ; 

 no bloom. Souhegan not so glossy, and a little bloom, more acid 

 than the others. Burns not so large as the two described, but the 

 sweetest and to my taste the best. 



Gregg and Hoosier Mammoth green yet. 



WHITE O^TES. 



Moody, very productive, good flavor, good size for a cap berry, 

 and worth having. 



Caroline. This is certainly an acquisition. Plant hardy ; 

 propagates from suckers and from tips (a very unusual thing), 

 which shows plainly that it is a cross between Brinckle Orange and 

 some white cap. The fruit is a complete sjalit between the two, 

 and the plant also. The fruit is not quite as large as the Brinckle, 

 nor quite as good ; but near enough so to make it very valuable. 

 My plants set out last spring a year ago are loaded with fruit, some 

 of which is ripe and is certainly fine. 



In this we have a first rate hardy white (or rather yelloAv) rasp- 

 berry, a thing not in existence a few years ago. 



Some new ones added to our collection this season are not 

 bearing yet, so we cannot describe them. 



Some one asks whether the Souhegan is not the old Doolittle, 

 brought out under a new name? 



I have not had the Doolittle for near twenty years, and can 

 therefore not tell as if the two were growing side by side. One 

 tiling is certain, it is much like the Doolittle in cane, thorns and 

 frait, and is probably a seedling of that variety. It is earlier in 

 my opinion, and moreover the parties who brought out the Souhe- 

 gan are above sudi tricks. 



Much to my delight I have Just found a few plants of the Sur- 

 prise raspberry, which I thought lost. It is well worth keeping, of 



