42 State Horticultural Society. 



C. K. Dutcher. — What is the best fertilizer for the Haverland? 



A. V. Sc4iermerhorn. — The Clyde in Illinions. 



Prof. Dutcher. — How about the Lady Thompson? 



J. T. Stinson. — If you used the Lady Thompson and the Clyde, 

 they would do all right. 



Mr. Markey. — The Wolverton is used by some. 



Prof. Dutcher.— Last year I got good out of the Cumberland. 



Mr. Schermerhorn. — Do you not think it better to fertilize with 

 large berries? In my experience it is much better to use something 

 larger to fertilize large berries with. 



Prof. Stinson. — In a large commercial field, we find it to be a bad 

 proposition. It is a bad thing to have berries not similar to put in a 

 car load. You find it an advantage to have similar berries. The 

 Wolverton is a good thing as a fertilizer. It is a bad scheme to have 

 a berry like the Michell's Early in a Haverland bed, because thev are 

 gone before the Haverlands come in. If you can arrange it, it is a good 

 scheme to have berries that ripen near the same time. 



Mr. Gilkeson shows specimens of twigs which are blighted and 

 ^sks for information. Pronounced twig blight by Prof. Stinson. Secy. 

 Goodman contended that it was different from pear blight. Prof. Stin- 

 son, however, contended that twig and pear blight were one and the same. 

 Jleferred to Prof. Whitten. 



VARIETIES OF STRAWBERRIES. 



• (H. W. Jenkins, Boonville.) 



Solomon said ''That of making many books there is no end ; and 

 much study is a weariness of the flesh." Had Solomon lived in this 

 •day and age of gaudy pictured nursery catalogues he might well have 

 •said there is no end to the new varieties of strawberries and much study 

 over the catalogues in the selection of varieties to plant is a weariness 

 -of the flesh. For each spring comes on a new crop of novelties and 

 wonders. Larger, better colored, more productive, hardier, in fact each 

 new comer that comes forth for public recognition is the acme of per- 

 fection, produced by scientific methods of cross fertilization. A royal 

 thoroughbred and of course with a pedigree and generallly backed by 

 :a testimonal from a Ohio man or the other fellow from Michigan. 



With each annual crop of these scientific wonders comes a crop of 

 suckers ready to purchase them at fabulous prices. For in every fruit 

 srrower's h-^art is a desire for better things and he allows his cupidity to 



