REPORTS OF COUNTY SOCIETIES. 331 



The favorite strawberry hereabouts is the Crescent, with Cumber- 

 land, Chas. Downing, Capt. Jack or other good pollenizer near or inter- 

 mixed. Glendale has borne well several seasons and is a good late 

 kind. 



Raspberries were a fair average crop, with good prospects for '90. 

 Of the red sorts, Hansell, Rancocas, Thwack, Turner and Cuthbert 

 succeed well. Marlboro is not profitable, failing to throw up canes 

 enough to bear a good crop. The fruit is large, firm, good quality and 

 color. If others have been successful in growing this variety will they 

 give us their manner of culture and treatment? Unless it can be made 

 productive and profitable it will stay but a short time. Schaeffer's 

 Collossal is not satisfactory — cane too unruly and not altogether hardy 

 and fruit of poor color and flavor until over-ripe, when it is too soft to 

 carry even to a home market. Of black caps the Gregg has ousted all 

 others for main crop. The Ohio is a good early sort. 



Blackberries, cultivated and wild, were an abundant crop, with 

 prospects for next season for another. Some years back the "rust" 

 almost destroyed the Kittatinny and Lawton, at that time about the 

 only kinds grown. Later Snyder was introduced, and withstood the 

 disease successfully, becoming almost the sole variety cultivated. Re- 

 cently the Kittatinny and Lawton both recovered, and have shown.no 

 trace of rust. While this condition remains the Kittatinny will be the 

 principal sort with us until we find something better. Taylor promises 

 well, appealing very hardy and fruitful — berries of good size and 

 quality. Wilson Junior is early, hardy and fruit of good quality in 

 both size and flavor. It is of feeble growth, however, and is sorely 

 deficient in bearing. Would be glad to learn what success others had 

 with this otherwise desirable sort. 



Lucretia dewberry is an entire failure with us. Has anyone suc- 

 ceeded satisfactorily with it. 



Currants are grown with uncertain success — too much so to en- 

 courage planting further than for family use. 



Gooseberries, like most other berry fruits, are grown for home 

 consumption generally. The native sorts do well. 



The grape has found a congenial abiding place, mostly on the bluff 

 hills along the Missouri river. The soil and lay of these hills appears 

 specially adapted to the healthy development of the grapevine. The 

 area devoted to grape culture in the county is about 200 acres, of 

 which 145 are in and about the town of Augusta, in the extreme south- 

 western portion of the county. The grapes are made into wine almost 

 entirely, and yielded 45-50,000 gallons in 1889, while the crop average 

 was not over 60 per cent. The sorts now mostly grown are Norton's 



