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Those most affected were Jewell, Lida, Bid well and Manchester. If we 

 could control this sun scald, rust, or fungi, the Jewell, Lida and Man- 

 chester would be three of the best kinds in cultivation, but they are about 

 worthless as it is. 



By careful observation on my experimental grounds, I would give 

 the following list in about the order named as the best kinds to grow for 

 market: Bubach, Sucker State, Miner, Crescent, Mount Vernon and May 

 King. 



The Gaudy's Prize, Warfield, Bancroft and Itasca are very promis- 

 ing. Jessie is not very productive, but as I have it highly stimulated 

 for growing plants, it could not be pq producti\'e, Bombay, Monmouth, 

 Logan, Warfield and other new kinds are fine growers but are not allowed 

 to fruit. 



RASPBERRIES. 



Wood very short, one-ihird of a crop. Oh, Hopkins and Souhegan 

 arc most valuable blackcaps on my place, and I have tested sixteen to 

 twenty kinds. Reds are not profitable here, being worth but little more 

 in market than black caps, and they ripen very uneven and are hard to 

 pick. Shaffer's Collosal, a cross between the Red and Black, is bound to 

 supersede all the Reds grown in the West; plants large, hardy, product- 

 ive ; very hard to propagate and transplant. 



Carman is likely to supersede the Souhegan ; Earhart not profita'ble 

 if season is dry ; Gregg too tender, dies back from pruning, and is short- 

 lived. 



BLACKBERRIES. 



One-half crop ; the canes pruned late in season made no further 

 growth, some died back ; wood short, and badly winter-killed. Snyder 

 is the standard, having matured fruit regularly for fifteen years, but Wal- 

 lace, Freed, Taylor's Prolific, and Western Triumph are hardy, large, pro- 

 ductive, valuable ; Early Flarvest, Missouri Mammoth, Wilson Junior 

 and Early Cluster too tender ; Staymen, Stone's Hardy and McCracken 

 hardy and productive, but too small ; Erie and other new blackberries, 

 also Lucretiaand other dewberries not fairly tested but are very promis- 

 ing. Dwarf Service not much cultivated, hardy, productive, resembles 

 the huckleberry. 



Huckleberries have been thoroughl)' tested and will not succeed 

 here ; they do not root deep enough to resist the drouth. 



Gooseberry and currents almost a failure, late frost destroyed the 

 bloom. 



