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them read here. We have here a comparatively small audience, but through our reports 

 and the Horticulturist, we have an audience of not less than 2,500 people. We have an 

 actual circulation of about that number, and we know that our reports are read by about 

 as many more ; so that I suppose about five thousand would be about the audience thai 

 we would have for that paper. 



Mr. Dempsey. — I will prepare the paper. 



Mr. Gott. — There was one class of berries that was not mentioned by the President. 

 They are the class known as ever-bearing raspberries. Why they are thus designated I 

 can scarcely tell you. One of the best of these is an old English variety called Belle de 

 Fontenay. If you deprive it of the early crop you will get a very excellent late crop. If 

 you allow the early crop to mature you will only get a medium late crop. Another of 

 that class of berries is the Marvel of Four Seasons. There are some objections to the first 

 I have named. It is a very rampant grower, but that can be easily managed. Cut down 

 the shoots and keep it in bounds, and it is a profitable and excellent variety. The fruit 

 is simply superb. We think very highly of the Gregg up our way. It is thought to be 

 better than the Mammoth Cluster in some respects. It prolongs the season, and is found 

 to be very profitable. We have had no indication of tenderness on the part of the Gregg. 



Mr. Dempsey. — How does it compare with the Mammoth Cluster in colour? 



Mr. Gott. — We think it has a little darker colour, and not so much of the white 

 bloom that the Mammoth Cluster has.. It is of a beautiful shining black. There was an- 

 other red — two indeed — that might have been mentioned also. One of them, called the 

 Noami, we find to be equal to the Turner, and in some respects better. The cane is very 

 productive, and quite hardy. There was a remark made about the Clark crumbling con- 

 siderably. Now, we have never had this experience with the Clark. With us it is first- 

 class both in quality and in productiveness. 



Mr. a. M. Smith. — I differ a little from the President with regard to the Highland 

 Hardy. We find it one of our most profitable market berries. It is free with us from 

 the objection that he spoke of. In regard to its coming into competition with the straw- 

 berries, our strawberries are usually done by the time it ripens. As far as the other 

 varieties he mentioned are concerned I would agree with him. I think our friend Gott 

 has made a little mistake with regard to the Gregg — as to the white bloom he speaks of 

 being darker than on the Mammoth Cluster. I think if he would reverse that he would 

 have it nearer right. I think there is more of it on the Gregg than there is on the Mam- 

 moth Cluster. 



Mr. Saunders. — I hardly think it would be well for this Association to recommend 

 the Belle de Fontenay as a berry for even amateurs to grow. I have been trying to grow 

 it in London for a number of years, and have rarely had anything on it — sometimes a 

 few berries at the end of the year, but not enough to pay for cultivating it. Mr. Gott's 

 premises are admirably adapted to growing raspberries. The soil is exactly fitted to it, 

 and is in close proximity to the lake. In our section of the country I have never known 

 but one man who has grown the Belle de Fontenay with anything like success, and he 

 exhibits the fruit very late as a curiosity. I do not think it would be a very profitable 

 variety to grow for market. Some notice has been taken of my own seedlings by the 

 President ; and as I have no plants to sell I suppose I may say a Avord on the point. The 

 seedlings apppear to be more hardy than any varieties that 1 have. I still have the old 

 plants that have been growing for eight or nine years, and they are still bearing good 

 crops. No. 55 seems to me one of the most desirable, although 70 is about equally good. 

 69 is another one that stands about the same as 70. 69 comes in about the time of the 

 Philadelphia, whereas the 55 comes in later. The colour of these berries is against them 

 as market fruits, but for canning they are very delicious indeed ; and in cooking them, 

 of course, the dull colour of the surface of tlie fruit entirely disappears, and they make a 

 prettier jam than you can of the Philadelphia or the Doolittle. The Mammoth Cluster 

 succeeds better than the Doolittle on my grounds. The Philadelphia, of course, is a 

 stand-by, and produces a large crop. 



Mr. Beadle. — With regard to the Belle de Fontenay, I am glad Mr. Saunders 

 cautioned our friends about it. In our part of the country — the County of Lincoln — we 

 fijid it is not a desirable crop to grow. If you allow it to bear a summer crop it comes 



