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regards price and colour ; but the cold weather has destroyed it. My opinion is that the 

 Cuthbert is going to be the raspberry. It is of good size and colour, has a good shape, 

 and is very productive. It seems to have the peculiarity of dragging its crop along 

 for a greater length of time than most other varieties. The Turner I believe to be a 

 good berry ; and in conversation with Mr. Hooker, of Rochester, one of the largest fruit- 

 growers on the other side, he says that the Turner is with him one of the largest rasp- 

 berries he has. The Philadelphia is, I think, going to be done away with. It is not a 

 hei-ry that takes well in the market. The colour is against it, with the dealers in 

 Toronto ; they want something of a lighter colour and better size. The Herstine is a 

 good berry ; and my experience is that it can be grown outside the peach-growing district. 

 But it is not a shipper. The Gregg I believe to be the best of the Blackcaps ; but I do 

 not think it will supercede the Mammoth Cluster, because it is a little later. There is 

 one berry that I think the amateui- should cultivate any way, and that is a yellow berry, 

 the Caroline. As far as tested it has proven hardy, a very good cropper, and a berry of 

 good quality. 



Mr. Willard. — I have been interested a little in the Cuthbert ; and I had reports 

 from Kansas last spring that the Cuthbert had stood the severities of last winter better 

 than almost any other berry there. I have raised a great many berries for the Phila- 

 delphia market ; and I have found the Highland Hardy one of the best for profit that I 

 have raised, simply because it comes in very early. It has invariably brought me twenty 

 cents a quart in Philadelphia. I have no doubt the Cuthbert will prove itself worthy of 

 all that has been said about it this morning. 



Mr. Beadle. — What does Mr. Willard know about the Carolinel 



Mr. Willard. — I do not know anything about it, any more than I have looked into 

 the matter a little with a view of planting it, and I do not want it. Our people want a 

 bright attractive berry, and one that is hard enough to bear handling. Therefore the 

 Caroline would not suit my purposes. 



Mr. Wellington. — 1 have tested the Caroline, and I call it very good ; but it is 

 merely a berry for the amateur on account of its colour. 



Mr. Beadle. — -I was very much disappointed last summer in the Caroline that was 

 grown on Mr. A. M. Smith's grounds — I have not fruited it yet. I was down at his 

 place and saw the fruit there, and he kindly, afterwards, when it was more perfectly ripe, 

 sent me a basket of it ; and I was very much disappointed in the quality. It was almost 

 flavourless. It had a pretty colour, somewhat resembling Brinkle's Orange, but a long 

 way off from it in flavour. 



Mr. a. M. Smith. — I would simply say, in regard to the Caroline, that it has some- 

 thing of the Blackcap habit of growth. The first season it droops over and lies on the 

 ground. The plants fruited on my place when they were only one year out ; and the 

 berries were picked from near the ground, where the bushes were lying down, and quite 

 shaded by the very strong growth of the new shoots, which might account in some degree 

 for the insipid flavour. It is apparantly a very hardy berry, and it has this peculiarity : 

 it propagates both from suckers and the tips. There has been a want felt among amateurs 

 for a good, light-coloured raspberry — something of the nature of Brinkle's Orange — that 

 was hardy enough to stand this climate ; and I was in hopes we were to get it in the Caro- 

 line ; but, if its flavour is no better than it was on my place this year, I cannot speak very 

 highly of it. In regard to the Turner, I consider it would be a very valuable i-aspberry 

 for the colder parts of our country — in sections where the Clarke, Herstine, and some of 

 our finer varieties will not succeed. The Turner, I am told, will succeed almost anywhere. 

 The only objection I have to it is its profuse suckering. In regard to the Brandy wine, it 

 is claimed that it is an excellent berry for shipping. I presume it would be ; but there is 

 that same objection to it with regard to suckering ; and it is also small. Mr. Gott men- 

 tioned that it came about the same time as the Highland Hardy. • My Brandywine is a 

 good deal later. 



Mr. Dempsey. — i think raspberries a very profitable crop. I think they rather 

 surpass the strawberry in point of profit. I adopt the same principle in recommending 

 varieties of the i-aspberry to the people that I have recently done with regard to apples. 

 I say to them, " Go to your neighbour ; ascertain what variety of apple is succeeding ; pick 



