186 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



crop fully two-thirds. We had a fair crop on some plants we covered 

 with the mulching that laid between the rows, but the covering and 

 uncovering for ten or twelve days (as was the case this season) was a 

 tedious operation, injuring the blossoms some and hindering their pol- 

 lenization; the mulching seemed to wear out with so much handling 

 and did not cover the plants as well as at first. If plants only re- 

 quired to be protected from one or two frosts as in May, 1894, pro- 

 tection in this manner would be very successful if enough of the ma- 

 terial was on hand. Another season we will have plenty of material 

 for covering plants conveniently placed where it can be quickly spread 

 over the plants when there is danger of frost, if we are not caught 

 napping. 



Varieties whose foliage covered the fruit stems escaped the frost the 

 best, while some varieties, such as Captain Jack and Mount Vernon, 

 that push their fruit stems above the foliage, had nearly all their ber- 

 ries and blossoms frozen. Late sorts, like Wolverton, Saunders, Mrs. 

 Cleveland, Staymau No. 1, and Great Pacific, blossomed freely after the 

 frosts and bore a light crop of nice berries. The AVarfield and Beder- 

 wood yielded the most fruit, aud the former is certainly worthy of 

 first place on the list. It is a good shipper, excellent quality, bears 

 early and late, and abundantly. Bederwood and Enhance are our 

 best fertilizers, the first for early, and the latter for early and late sorts. 

 Saunders, Wolverton, and Parker Earl are good late fertilizers only. 

 We think it advisable to plant both early and late fertilizers in same 

 field, alternating the rows. 



Bubach No. 5 has made a poor record the past two years in 

 blossom and fruit, and must be discarded if it does not redeem itself 

 next season. Of some of the newer sorts, Eureka, Dayton, Greenville^ 

 and Robinson give excellent promise. 



RASPBERRIES. 



Raspberries suffered severely by the drouths of last year and the 

 past winter. A timely rain in the spring induced a vigorous growth 

 which blossomed freely, but the May frosts destroyed nearly all of 

 these blossoms. The Gregg blossomed after the frosts and yielded 

 some fruit. We plant blackcap sorts in the apple tree rows of our 

 orchard, running north and south. They are shaded some in this 

 way from the sun, summer and winter, and we find they are injured 



