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for the trunk. Quinces are especially resistant to alkali, but are 

 susceptible to codling moth to the same degree as pears and 

 apples. Were a market available, such as a jelly factory, large 

 areas of quinces might be grown at a good profit. While all varie- 

 ties do well, those which have done especially well at the Station 

 Farm are Champion, Orange, Smyrna, Rea's Mammoth, and Meech's 

 Prolific. 



RADISHES 



Radishes are easily grown during our cool season. The plant 

 will stand considerable frost. The red, turnip-shaped varieties 

 grow quickly but do not stay in good condition as long as the long 

 white radishes. If people "would accept white radishes they would 

 find them of much better quality than the short, red kinds, and there 

 is more quantity to them. White Icicle is probably the best quality 

 of radish that grows. White Strausburg is another good long white 

 variety, which stands the heat better than most radishes. Early 

 scarlet Turnip is a good red variety. Winter radishes are grown 

 and stored like turnips. 



RASPBERRIES 



Raspberries produce well only in the cool moimtain valleys. 

 The red varieties are propagated by suckers, while the blacks are 

 propagated by tip layers. When the canes get "snaky" the tips 

 are inserted in moist soil, where they root by fall. With the red 

 varieties it is a problem to keep the canes from becoming too numer- 

 ous, and with both varieties the old canes should be removed after 

 fruiting, since a cane bears only once. 



The loganberry, Vvhich resembles the raspberry and the black- 

 berry, succeeds a little better in the warm parts of the State, but is 

 not a good yielder. Cuthbert is the most popular red raspberry, 

 and Gregg is the most popular black. 



RHUBARB 



Rhubarb is a perennial plant which survives our hot summers 

 in the southern part of the State with great difficulty; but at the 

 higher elevations, especialty in the northern sections, it thrives 

 and makes an excellent spring vegetable. 



The culture of rhubarb is similar to that of asparagus. Either 

 seeds or plants are set out 4 by 4 feet, in very rich soil, fertilized with 

 generous amounts of stable manure. The first year or two is used 

 to develop a good, strong, vigorous plant, which can stand having 

 its leaves removed. There is little choice in the few varieties offered. 



