104 Small J^ruils /o?' t?ie JFamil^ Gai^den, 



Small Fruits for the Family Garden. 



Jtead, by T^otiis Jtitz, before the Eastern Ohio Horticultural Society. 



[CONCLUDED.] 



OF all the Black-cap varieties grown for market, the Doolittle for early, to be fol- 

 lowed by the Mammoth Cluster or large Miami are the best ; the difference in 

 earliness between the Davison's Thornless and Doolittle is so slight, and the produc- 

 tion of the latter so much larger, that I hold it to be more profitable of the two. The 

 Mammoth Cluster I would consider the queen of Black-caps, as it stands unsurpassed 

 for size, flavor or productiveness, if it was not too soft to be shipped a great distance ; 

 in our Cincinnati market it sells well, but dealers will not buy it for reshipment, and 

 prefer for that purpose the common Miami. 



Our Chillicothe friends spoke last winter very highly of the Chapman, and if it 

 has all the good qualities of the Mammoth Cluster, without this defect, it should be 

 planted in preference. If our pleasant visit to Chillicothe, last summer, had not con- 

 vinced us to the contrary, I would feel inclined to consider our Ross county friends a 

 very selfish people for keeping this Chapman berry so many years to themselves, and 

 I hope they will furnish us to-day with some additional information. 



I received some time ago from Kentucky, the Kentucky Mammoth, which if not 

 identical with the Chapman, may prove its equal, being a strong grower, large, firm 

 and very productive. 



The above varieties will do equally well for the garden, where also the Miller or 

 any of the Ohio Everbearing species would be appreciated. 



Of red raspberries the Philadelphia is certainly the most productive in rich soil ; 

 of good size, but rather soft and deficient in flavor; its greatest defect, however, is 

 its dark, dull color. In some markets color may not be so much of an object, but in 

 Cincinnati the Philadelphia sells well only, if no lighter colored berries are in market, 

 otherwise it will bring no more than Black-caps. 



The hardiest of the Antwerps with me is the Clarke, which stood even the extremes 

 of last winter without being injured, while the Philadelphia suffered severely for the 

 first time. It is a strong, rampant grower, and on that account should be cut back 

 during the summer, very large and productive, of fine color and highly flavored. In 

 light soils the Clarke does not seem to be as reliable as in strong ones. Then we 

 have the Parnell, not quite as hardy, but does well with a light shelter, and I may 

 here state that both raspberries and blackberries seem to do better in young orchards, 

 the shade being beneficial and trees protecting the more tender kinds in winter. 



For the garden, the Sin-passe Fasstolff, Knevitt^s Giant and Belle de Fonttnay are 

 valuable ; the latter yielded, the past summer, berries from June to the end of Octo- 

 ber. 



Unsurpassed for home use is the Sjirprise cf Antoinne, bearing two crops, each 

 equal to, if not excelling in quantity, the Philadelphia ; it is of very large size, of 

 the most delicate yellowish-white tint, and in flavor the superior of Brinkle's Orange 

 or Arnold's seedlings. 



The Hersthie is the only new variety of great promise ; it is a seedling of the Phil- 

 adelphia, and will be the berry for profit, if only one-half the praise awarded to it is 



