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numerous varieties of strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries,, 

 mostly new, tested at the station the past season. Xo recommended 

 list of strawberries is given. Among- raspberries, Miller, Cuthbert, 

 Columbian, Golden Queen, Marlboro, Eureka, Kansas, and Nemaha are 

 recommended; among- blackberries, Agawam, Ancient Briton, Early 

 King or Early Harvest (with protection), Eldorado, Erie, Snyder, Tay- 

 lor, and Western Triumph. The author especially recommends thorough 

 subsoiling before the setting of raspberries on land with a hard compact 

 subsoil. 



Cultural notes are given on the native grapes, and Brilliant, ('amp- 

 bell, Early Ohio, Nectar, Red Bird, and Ulster are recommended among 

 the newer varieties as worthy of consideration. 



Strawberry culture — notes on varieties, L. R. Taft and IT. P. 

 Gladden (Michigan Sta. Bui. 163, pp. 43-76, figs. 6). — A general pre- 

 sentation of the subject, discussing the soil and its preparation, plants 

 and planting, fall planting, varieties, perfect and imperfect flowered 

 varieties, cultivation and care, mulching, preventing injury from frost, 

 irrigation, cleaning out the old beds, insects and diseases, the strawberry 

 weevil, and the strawberry-leaf blight. Notes upon a large number of 

 varieties are appended. 



"The most promising of the new sorts are Fountain, Hoosier, Knight, Morgan 

 Favorite, Ridgeway, Seaford, Unnamed, and Mayflower for early and medium, and 

 Michigan for late. 



"Of the varieties that have been tested for two seasons the following have the 

 most promise : Fremont, Giant, Glen Mary, Ideal, Purdue, Plow City, Ruby, and 

 Wm. Belt. 



"Notwithstanding the advent of the many newer sorts, it is doubtful if there are 

 more profitable varieties for the market grower than Bnbach, Haverland, and War- 

 field, with Bedor Wood, Sharpless, or Clyde as fertilizers for these pistillates. 



"For the grower of fancy fruit under intensive culture it is possible that the 

 large fruiting sorts— Brandywine, Glen Mary, Marshall, and Wm. Belt — may be mure 

 profitable than the varieties named above that are usually more productive but 

 bear smaller berries. 



" Bird, Greenville, Leroy, Snowball, and Weston, among sorts not so widely known 

 as the above, have given good results as market berries. 



"Aroma and Eureka bear large fruits, are late, and have a long season. They are 

 well worthy of trial as late varieties.'' 



A native "white bedding plant, J. C. Arthur (Indiana Sta. Bui. 71, 

 pp. 94-lou. pis. 6, fig. l). — The essential motive of tiiis bulletin is to call 

 the attention of flower lovers to the ornamental possibilities of some 

 species of our native flora. Notes are given on Gerastium arvense 

 oblongifolium, to which the author gives the popular name starry 

 grasswort, as a bedding plant. This plant has been under cultivation 

 at the station for several years. It covers the ground with a close mat 

 of foliage and is evergreen. It has merits also as a cut flower. The 

 starry grasswort is believed to possess the necessary capacity for varia- 

 tion that is essential when rapid cultural improvement is demanded. 

 Botanical and cultural notes are given. 

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