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the Clark were tried three or four years without much success. The 

 Delaware was grown several years and did very well. Cuthbert 

 has proved reliable and profitable. The Loudon is one of the best. 

 Henrietta, Reliance, Marlboro and Miller are not reliable. 



Black Raspberries. — The Tyler, Muskingum, Nemaha, Conrath, 

 Mammoth Cluster, Seneca, Davidson's Thornless, Ohio. The Shaf- 

 fer and the Columbian hybrids do very well. The Gregg has been 

 cultivated all this time and is considered most reliable. 



Strawberries. — The country generally was credited with a good 

 crop, but the carrying trade of late years has sO' affected the market 

 that a small space does not change the conditions or materially 

 affect the price. Strawberries at ten cents per box will usually pay 

 a big price on the labor. For the last few years I have disposed of 

 mine by allowing outsiders to pick and pay for what they carried 

 away in their own packages, thus saving looking after pickers, the 

 boxes and markets, usually charging them two cents less than the 

 market price. This plan has worked well for a small area and where 

 I am situated. Bederwood and Warfield did well as usual. Senator 

 Dunlap did the best of all; its roots seem to penetrate deeper than 

 those of other varieties, and' they do not winter-kill nor suffer with 

 drouth. I have grown the Mary for several years and considered 

 them full as hardy as the average. I put last year two rows of them 

 between the Dunlaps and under the same conditions they killed, 

 while the Dunlaps were entirely unhurt. The Joe Robbin, Lloyd, 

 New York, Brandy wine and Walker were killed or injured so as to 

 bear no fruit. From my experience for a reliable crop, for a series 

 of years, I would depend on Bederwood and Warfield, and Senator 

 Dunlap. I have tested for several years, sometimes with good suc- 

 cess, the Jessie, Princess, Wilson, Greenville, Sharpless, Manchester, 

 Capt. Jack, Cumberland, Hood, Lovett, Gardiner, Princeton Chief, 

 Wm. Belt, Michaels, Splendid, Babcock, Parker Earle, Marshall. 



Mr. Van Ness: I am glad to hear one man speak in praise 

 of the Loudon raspberry. I heard it cried down yesterday, and 

 it grieved me very much. It is productive, and it will stand the 

 winter. My neighbors at Bloomington will bear me out in that 

 statement. I have grown a variety of raspberries ; I find the Cuth- 

 bert is similar to the Loudon, but it has to be protected in winter. 

 The Loudon has stood the winter very well, and I think it ought to 

 have a littl-e more praise. 



Mr. Lord : If you will give the Loudon good culture and plenty 

 of manure, and take good care of it generally, it will produce more 

 and better berries than almost any other variety. There are va- 

 rieties that never winter-kill, they produce abundantly, but the 

 berries are insipid. A person that had tasted the Loudon would not 

 look at them. 



