o(34 Repout of the Horticulturist of the 



Early Varieties. 



Table I shows that five varieties yielded a fifth or more of their 

 crop before June loth ; these may be called early for this seasou. 

 These are arranged in Table II in the order of their productive- 

 ness. 



Tahle II. Early Varieties Ranked Accoki>ing to Yield Before June 15tii. 



NAME. 



Earliest 

 Staples. 

 Tubbs.- 



Date of first 

 Picking. 



June 6 

 June 6 

 June 8 



Murray j June 



Yield before 

 June 15, 

 ounces. 



65 

 54 

 41 



18 



Total yield. 



1896. 



103 

 103 

 154 



80i 



Rank as 



to yield. 



1896. 



9 



9 



5 



13 



As is usual with very early varieties, Earliest does not take a 

 high rank as to yield, yet where very early berries are desired, it 

 is worthy of a trial. Its season is about the same as Michel, and 

 in productiveness it ranks about the same as that variety. Sta- 

 ples takes the same rank as to yield, and, like Eiirliest, it pro- 

 duced over half of its fruit before June 15, which date is taken 

 this year as the beginning of '' mid-season." Tubbs is one of the 

 promising new varieties, not quite as early as the two just men- 

 tioned, but more productive. Murray was not productive this 

 season. 



Late Varieties. 



June 27 is taken this year as the end of " mid-season." Those 

 varieties that yielded a fifth or more of their crop after this 

 date may be called late. Table I shows that of the berries 

 fruited in one-year-old beds only the one variety, Wilder No. 7, 

 can be classed in this list. Tliis berry stands third in product- 

 iveness among the varieties- that fruited here for the first time 

 this season and yielded 44 ounces of its crop after June 27. 



Notes on Varieties on Spring-Set Two-Year-Old Beds. 



In the notes on varieties that were fruited in spring-set two- 

 year-old beds we have attempted to sum up the data collected 



