50 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



31r. Evans — Has he ever tried tlie Hopkins ? I don't know a better 

 one. 



Mr. Speer — A small plantation of Hopkins in Bates county has the- 

 finest promise I have seen this year. 



Mr. Evans — The Hopkins will bear good treatment as well as any 

 kind, and will come out better than other kinds without any treatment. 



Mr. Brown — I like the Ohio. It is very hardy, not quite as large 

 as Gregg", and it is very productive. It is rather dry. 



Mr. Speer — Will the raspberry pay to raise for market where it has- 

 to be shipped? 



Mr. Thomas — I have shipped for nine years. It has paid better 



than any fruit I have handled. The Mammoth Cluster was too late to- 



ship north, so I discarded it. 



Mr. Evans — How many crops of raspberries have you made, say in 



a series of ten years ? 



Mr. Thomas — I first raised five good crops in succession, the next 

 a half crop, and a very fine prospect now, making seven years. ' 



Mr. Evans — How many crops of strawberries have you made in ten 

 years ? 



M. Thomas — In the past ten years I have made two almost entire 

 failures and one partial failure. I am now prepared to water my straw- 

 berries to some extent by a wind mill and hope to make it profitable in 

 a dry year. I would say that seven crops in ten years would be about 

 what we can make., 



Mr. Evans — One more question : on which can you make the most 

 money in a series of ten years "? 



Mr. Thomas — For the past ten years strawberries. For the next 

 ten you had better take raspberries. 



Mr. Evans — In our country we can make more money with the 

 Hopkins than with any other berry whatever. 



Mr. Broion — Have you the sawtly that cuts up the cane of the 

 raspberries? 



Mr. Evans — Eo, sir ; we have nothing of the kind. 



Mr. Bryant (of Illinois) — We have a fungus that is using up the 

 Doolittle almost entirely, making some plantations almost valueless. 

 It is on the young cane and not on the leaf. You will find canes with 

 the young leaves beginning to curl and the next year the berries will 

 all dry up. 



Mr. Evans — Are the canes inclined to be too small and too numer- 

 ous ? 



Mr. Bryant — They grow very well early in the season, 



Mr. Goodman — Give us the history of those big strawberries. 



