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STATE BOARD OP AGRICULTURE 



Maxwell. This was the first year of fruiting. The canes were not of strong 

 growth and were quite badly injured by the winter. A few small and imperfectly 

 formed fruits that were of good quality were borne. Further trial is required" to 

 test the variety. 



Reyner. This was the first crop borne. The variety is good in cane growth and 

 seems to be quite hardy. The berries are short, conical, quite irregular in form, of 

 good quality, but too sioall in size to be of value as a market berry. If the size 

 of the fruit improves as Ihe plants become older, it may become valuable. 



Sauford. First berries borne this season. The canes are of strong growth. 

 About one-third of the cane growth killed by the winter. The fruits are of much 

 the appearance of Snyder, though scarcely as large. A good crop of fruit was 

 borne and the variety seems of considerable promise. Further trial necessary. 



Snyder and Taylor are old standard sorts that usually produce a good crop of 

 fruit. The canes will stand an ordinary winter without serious injury. 



RASPBERRIES. 



The tips of the canes of several varieties of raspberries were killed by the winter, 

 but all had a sufficient amount of live cane growth to bear a full crop of fruit. The 

 soil where the plants were grown is one that dries out very easily and is underlain 

 with quicksand which closely approaches the surface; the cane growth and pro- 

 du(,-tiveness are, therefore, not what they would be under more favorable conditions. 

 Tne plants were sprayed with Bcrdeaux mixture when the young canes were about 

 one foot high and the anthracuose was thus kept in check until the crop was 

 harvested, when the old canes were removed and burned. 



Black and Hybrid Raspberries. 



Size. 



B, email, 

 m, mediam. 

 1, large. 



Variety. 



Black Diamond. 



Colnmbiau 



Conrath 



Edmunds 



Eureka 



Gregg... 

 Kansas.. 

 Lotta .. 

 Hunger. 



Nemaha 



On< ndaga 



Palmer 



Poscharsky No. ' 



Smith (Giant)... 

 " (Prolific). 



Stahelin 



Shaffer 



o 



7.5 

 8.5 

 8. 

 9 5 

 9.2 



9. 

 9. 

 9.5 

 9.5 



9. 



8.5 

 7.5 

 9.5 



9. 



9.5 



9.5 



8.2 



ABBBEVIATION8. 



Form. 



r, round. 

 c, conical, 

 o, ovate. 



a 



o 



o 

 O 



Juae 2 



" 9 



" 1 



" 2 



" 1 



" 4 



" 2 



" 4 



" 1 



" 4 



" 1 



" 1 



" 3 



" 1 



" 3 



1 



" 4 





'Ojo 



July 8 



" 10 



" 4 



" 1 



1 



1 



6 



7 



•' 5 



'• 4 



June 29 



July 5 



" 5 

 " 3 

 " 2 



Q 



July 24 



Aug. 3 



July 20 



" 20 



" 23 



" 25 



" 20 



" 24 



" 26 



" 24 



" 21 



" 18 



" 24 



" 24 



" 21 



" 23 



" 23 



a 



a 



»^ 

 u 





 T3 

 O 



5. 

 9. 



8.5 



8. 



9. 



8.5 

 8.5 

 8.5 

 9. 



7.5 



8. 



9.4 



9. 



8.5 

 8. 



Color. 



b, black, g, glosSi 



p, purple. 1, light 



o, orange, pu, pubescent. 



m 

 m 

 1 

 1 

 1 



1 

 1 

 1 

 1 



1 

 m 



s 

 1 



m 

 m 



s 



1 



o 



r c 

 r o 



r 



r 

 r c 



r 



r 



r c 

 r c 



r 

 r c 



r 

 r c 



r c 

 r c 

 r c 



r s 



o 



h 

 P 

 b 

 gb 

 b 



b pu 



gb 



b 



b 



b ^u 

 b 

 b 

 b 



b 

 b 

 b 

 P 



Black Diamond. — Did not make as good a showing as last season. The canes 

 were of weak growth and the few berries borne were below average size. 



Columbian.— Perhaps the best of the purple-cap class. 



Conrath.— An excellent medium early variety. Good in cane growth and pro- 

 ductive of large-sized berries. 



Edmunds.— Plants from Ed. Reynolds, Owosso, Mich. The canes are of strong 

 growth. The berries are medium to large in size, quite irregular in form, and 



