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in with the other raspberries, and it possesses no qualities different from the others. 

 Then if you allow it to produce an autumn crop our appetite for raspberries is gone then, 

 and we are getting in our autumn fruits. But there is a place in Canada where just such 

 a variety as that is desirable. I remember receiving a letter from a gentleman in Ottawa 

 in which he spoke very highly of these autumn-bearing raspberries. They did not have 

 any peaches there, he said, unless they bought them at very high prices, and he thought 

 these autumn-bearing raspberries quite an acquisition to them. Mr. Wright lives up in 

 about as cold a part of the country as there is, and perhaps he can tell us whether he finds 

 these autumn-growing berries valuable there. 



Mr. Wright. — I have been led astray so often by people recommending varieties 

 that really were not what they represented them to be that I have become skeptical on a 

 great many of these points. With us the great thing is to find a variety that is perfectly 

 hardy. My experience has not gone over a great many years ; and if I were to recom- 

 mend a variety here and say it was perfectly hardy, I should want it to be so. Now, I 

 contend that no man in one or two or three years can tell whether a variety is hardy or 

 not. At least, that has been my experience. There are a great many sections of the 

 country that are very trying on all kinds of fruit ; and I live in one of those sections. 

 Now, the hardiest variety I have found yet among the red vai^ieties — if you call the one 

 I refer to a red variety — is Saunders' No. 70. It is not the choicest variety you can 

 have, but it is the choicest I can grow. I had this last winter, the Outhbert and the 

 Saunders No. 70 growing side by side ; and every single cane of the Cuthbert was killed 

 to the ground, and not a single portion of the Saunders' No. 70 was killed. With refer- 

 ence to black raspberries : the variety that has proved most hardy with me is the Mam- 

 moth Cluster. It has turned out tolerable hardy, although even it has suffered injury 

 some winters. There are a large number of other varieties that I have under trial, but 

 I think it should not be desirable either to praise or condemn them until I have had 

 further experience of them ; as to do so might lead people astray. 



Mr. Mattheson (Ottawa). — My case is precisely that of Mr. Wright's in regard to 

 Mr. Saunders' raspberry. 



Mr. Bucke. — The Saunders' raspberry that I have is an exceedingly prolific one. I 

 do not know what number it is. The only objection that I find to it is that the shoots 

 break off very i-eaiily in a wind. As a canning fruit there is no raspberry that can com- 

 pare with it. It has a peculiar flavour of its own. I have some seedlings from Mr. 

 Saunders' raspberry that I thought very highly of last year, but whether because they 

 grew so long, or for some other reason, they have not come up to my expectations this 

 spring at all. 



Mr. Saunders. — That breaking off of the canes — is it due to the deposit of the eggs 

 of an insect? 



Mr. Bucke.— No. 



Mr. Sauxders. — I think that may be accounted for as owing to the fact that Mr. 

 Bucke manures his ground so much that the canes grow very high. 



Mr. Dempsey. — Have you ever practiced pruning back when they attained a certain 

 height 1 



Mr. Bucke. — No. 



Mr. Dempsey. — Any raspberry will break off if it is allowed to grow up five or six 

 feet high. 



Mr. Beable. — I was just going to suggest as a remedy that which has just been 

 mentioned. 



Mr. Wright. — I never discovered anything of the kind in mine ; and I may mention 

 that no attention whatever is given to those raspberries of mine. They are in the most 

 unprotected portion of my grounds — that is, facing the north. I find that the portion 

 facing the north is the best part of my grounds for raising any kind of fruit. 

 Mr. Peck. — My Mammoth Cluster was blown down by the wind. 

 Mr. Wright. — I would like to ask if the Belle de Fontenay is a hardy variety. 

 Mr. Dempsey. — With me it is sufficiently hardy until fall, but we find invariably 

 the canes are dead in the spring. We get a crop from the new wood, however — the 

 branches from the bottom. It is an autumn bearer ; and in the case of any of these 



