New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 291 



Shaffer and Columbian have been the most satisfactory purple 

 berries. There seems to be but little difference in productiveness 

 between the two. 



Teletaugh, from J. F. Street, West Middletown, Ind., is a new 

 comer and has not been sufficiently tested to decide as to its 

 merits. The berries are large, dark purple with an abundance of 

 bloom that gives them a mouldy appearance. The fruit is firm 

 and rather tart. Its season is somewhat earlier than Shaffer or 

 Columbian. 



BLACKBERRIES. 

 Table VIII. — Yield of Blackberries in 1897. 



NAME or VARIETY. 



Dorcbester 



Success 



New Rochelle 



Stone Hardy 



Early Mammoth . 



Agawam 



Erie 



Western Triumph 



Ford Xo. 1 



Woodland 



Ancient Briton... 



Early King 



Lovett 



Wilson, Jr 



Sandford 



Black Chief 



Early Harvest . .. 



Child Tree 



Fruitland 



1893 

 1892 

 1893 

 1893 

 1892 

 1893 

 1893 

 1895 

 1892 

 1892 

 1893 

 1892 

 1893 

 1893 

 1894 

 1893 

 1895 

 1894 

 1892 



Ounces. 

 755 

 606 

 589 

 588 

 528 

 467 

 443 

 438 

 408 

 371 

 352 

 330 

 317 

 211 

 195 

 187 

 170 

 122 

 71 



In marketable 

 conditiou. 



Jnly 26 

 July 30 

 July 26 

 Aug. 9 

 July 28 

 July 28 

 Jnl'y 30 

 Aug. 2 

 Aug. 7 

 Jnlv30 

 Aug. 2 

 July 30 

 Aug. 7 

 July 23 

 Aug. 9 

 Aug. 7 

 July 15 

 July 26 

 Aug. 12 



to Sept. 2 

 to Sept. 7 

 to Sept. 2 

 to Sept. 2 

 to Aug. 30 

 to Aug. 30 

 to Aug. 7 

 to Aug. 30 

 to Sept. 7 

 to Sept. 2 

 to Aug. 30 

 to Sept. 7 

 to Aug. 30 

 to Aug, 30 

 to Aug. 30 

 to Sept. 7 

 to Aug. 17 

 to Aug. 21 

 to Aug. 30 



2'? 



Most of the blackberries came through the winter uninjured by 

 the cold. On this account some of the varieties take a high rank 

 in yield that have not heretofore been productive here. 



Dorchester is a well known old variety. It has not always 

 been hardy here. 



Success, from L. W. Carr and Co., Erie, Pa., received favorable 

 notice in our report for 1896 and this season it takes second rank 

 in yield. The berries are of medium size with medium grains 

 and small core; quality good. 



