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The Chairman: The nuts grow in clusters? 



Mr. Brady : Yes, about nine in a cluster. 



Mr. Empenger: I had twenty-three in a cluster. 



The Chairman : I have some here. The quality is good. 



Mr. Mitchell : I procured about a bushel of the seed from the 

 same source, and the young trees seem to be perfectly hardy; 

 they do not seem to winter-kill. They stand about three feet 

 high, and they have not winter-killed at all. 



The Chairman : We have had some trees for a number of 

 years, and they have killed back a little. 



Mr. Mitchell : Mine have not killed back at all, but they have 

 had no fruit. 



Mr. Hall: Where can seed be obtained? 



The Chairman : Mr. Wilfert has the seed. (Andrew Wilfert, 

 Cleveland, Minn.) 



BLACKBERRIES AND OTHER FRUITS IN THE 

 SUBURBAN GARDEN. 



GEORGE S. GRIMESy MINNEAPOLIS. 



Some years ago I was boasting to an office neighbor of my 

 blackberries. He said, "You are talking about black cap rasp- 

 berries ; you can't raise blackberries in this country. I have not 

 had any blackberries since I came from Ohio twenty years ago." 

 I did not stop to argue the proposition with him because mv black- 

 berries were unusually large that year, but the next morning I 

 picked a quart of the largest I could find and brought them down 

 to him. Since then I have heard no more from him about Ohio 

 blackberries. 



I have found in many years' experience within the limits of this 

 city that my blackberry patch will yield larger returns for the 

 amount of ground occupied and the amount of labor bestowed 

 than any other variety of fruit I have in my garden. Some seven or 

 eight years ago I planted out my present patch of blackberries, 

 down near the pasture fence. I have about three or four acres 

 out beyond Lake Harriet, and that is where I spend my mornings 

 and evenings in recreation. Those berries were put out in two 

 rows. , I am an amateur in the business, and I do not know whether 

 it was properly done or not. I put my rows about five feet apart 

 and the plants, I think, five feet in the rows. I have never culti- 

 vated those berries since the first year. The two rows soon went 

 into partnership, so that it was no longer possible to get a horse 

 and plow between them, but they have done excellently well for 

 all that. The variety I have, as it was reported to me, is what is 



