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a specimen of that apple and send it to the nurseryman you wish to patronize, and say, 

 ' Send me so many trees" that will produce apples just like that ; if they do not, I will 

 prosecute you.' " Otherwise, I find that the nurserymen sometimes do not send the same 

 varieties that I recommend, but I have to be responsible for it. I have a neighbour that 

 would not plant anything else in raspberries than Davison's Thornless and the Blackcaps. 

 Well, I failed to succeed with Davison's Thornless. The Seneca I find a very profitable 

 berry, except in regard to one thing, that is it matures so irregularly. It commences to 

 ripen middling early. It is not an early berry, however. We do not get enough berries 

 at a time. In this respect, I would prefer the Mammoth Cluster to any other berry 

 that we cultivate, from the fact that our pickers can clear the vines in about three pick- 

 ings, and it is very fine fruit. I do not think the Gregg will ever supercede it, from the 

 fact that we want them both ; the one succeeds the other. I have every confidence in 

 the Gregg. With respect to some of the red varieties, the Philadelphia is wonderfully 

 productive and hardy ; but when you have said that, I think you have said all for it, 

 there are so many varieties that are superior to it in point of flavour, colour, and shipping 

 qualities, I like the Herstine better than the Clarke on my grounds. I find it sufficiently 

 hardy. I have never seen an inch of it frozen in my life. The Turner, I think, is going 

 to be very profitable. It is a little in advance of the Philadelphia — not quite so product- 

 ive ; but it is a larger berry and a little better berry, and I fancy it will stand shipping 

 better. It is inclined to sucker a little more than the Philadelphia ; but the cultivator 

 can easily overcome that. The Cuthbert [ am perfectly well satisfied with. I fancy that 

 we shall never get too many of them ; because they ship very nicely. 



Mr. Woodward. — I am not a raspberry grower now, except for family use. The 

 most successful plantation of red raspberries about Lockport— the one that has been 

 established the longest, and the one that has made more money for the grower than has 

 been made out of any and all other varieties — is of the Franconia. It has stood every 

 winter we have had perfectly ; and it bears abundantly, and brings the highest price. A 

 gentleman there, who has been dabbling in the newer varieties, told me that he would 

 rather have the Franconia than all of them. I should want, in Blackcap.-;, the Doolittle 

 for an early berry. It is a good, productive berry, and the earliest of the good ones that 

 I know of, except the new one, the Souhegan, which, I am told, has some merits. And 

 then there is the Mammoth Cluster. I would grow those three if I were growing for 

 market and for drying. 



Mr. Beall. — Brinkle's Orange is reported everywhere as being very tender, and the 

 Philadelphia as being very hardy. I grow both of these, side by side, and one is equally 

 as hardy as the other, in my ground. 



Mr. Dempsey. — Brinkle's Orange stands with us. 



Mr. Beall.— The same number of plants with us will produce more quarts than the 

 Philadelphia ; I think fifty per cent. more. 



Mr. Dempsey. — One quart of red raspberries with us will fetch more than two quarts 

 of yellow ones. 



Mr. Arnold. — I do not know whether we have a better raspberry yet than the 

 Franconia. The Highland Hardy I rejected years ago. It sometimes seems to me that 

 it is like that great strawberry, the Mexican or Maximilian, it has to change its name 

 every few years to keep in existence. The Highland Hardy has been called by different 

 names. It is early, and stands the winter well ; but it is .so remarkably small with me. 

 If we want size, and if it will stand the winter, let us go back to the old Hornet. Who 

 ever had a larger or better berry than that? The Belle de Fontenay, if we can get rid of 

 the suckers in it, where can we get a better bearer 1 It bears splendid crops. I thought 

 I was having good success with berries; but a neighbour took me to the north of his 

 house and showed me some Yellow Antwerps that made me ashamed of mine. There is 

 too much wood in the Blackcaps to suit me. There is less in Mr. Saunders', because they 

 are a cross between the two varieties. 



