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eighteen inches in one season are generally full of berries the follow- 

 ing year. The size of the berry varies according to the time of ripen- 

 ing, the first fruit being as large as the ordinary cranberry and gradu- 

 ally get smaller as the season advances, but all are a fair size to the 

 last picking. Color of the fruit is a blue-black when fully ripe, 

 though it is very palatable when it reaches the reddish or purple stage. 

 There is no better fruit for pie or sauce that can be grown so easy as 

 the Dwarf Juneberry. There is no richer looking fruit. Dry 

 weather does not injure it. Wet weather does not injure it. There is 

 no insect that attacks it. The wind never blows hard enough to cause 

 the fruit to fall. It never gets too cold or too warm for the Dwarf 

 Juneberry. It is native to the west. It is a sure crop. 



THE STRAWBERRY AND RASPBERRY. 



G. N. TITUS. 



• When our Secretary requested that I prepare a paper for this meet- 

 ing, he suggested that I deal more particularly with the different va- 

 rieties that we have been testing and fruiting. 



I believe that the average person is more bewildered in knowing 

 what to plant that will furnish a succession of berries throughout the 

 season, in abundance, than in the method of setting and cultivating, as 

 there is plenty of information upon the subject of cultivation by 

 writers of national ability that will apply to the country as a whole 

 with few exceptions. This is not the case with regard to varieties, 

 as every practical fruit-grower knows that the sort that does well in 

 one locality may not thrive at all in another, perhaps of only a dis- 

 tance of a few miles, hence the necessity of the beginner or inexpe- 

 rienced planter in depending upon someone who has had the experi- 

 ence in his locality in order to get such varieties as will best succeed 

 there. The all-important thing in starting a berry garden is begin- 

 ning with the right varieties. No matter how well located, or how 

 well planted or cultivated, if the proper sorts have not been planted, 

 failure and disappointment must be the result. 



