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not hold back on account of the price, and if it is double that of the 

 other plants, the sooner he will take, his chances. 



Mr. Geo. J. Kellogg (Wis.) : I went over to Michigan to get 

 some pedigree plants. It is a mighty nice theory, but when you 

 come to put it into practice it does not pan out at all. This straw- 

 berry patch over there in Michigan of thirty acres sent out lots of 

 pedigree plants. They may have had some pedigree plants to start 

 out with, but they cannot keep on sending out pedigree plants. I 

 got some of those plants and set them out alongside of my own 

 plants, and I could see no difference. 



Mr. Henry Husser: I can endorse what Mr. Kellogg says, i 

 got pedigree plants, and they were no different from any other of 

 the same variety I ever bought. I do not believe in it at all. 



Mr. Ole J. Hagen : I have tried this scheme quite thoroughly of 

 planting both pedigreed and non-pedigreed plants for the last two 

 years, and I have found no difference in them. I did not get a 

 single berry from either of them. (Laughter.) 



Mr. S. D. Richardson : Two years ago I thought I would try 

 some pedigreed strawberries from Michigan. They failed, and I 

 sent to the other Kellogg in Wisconsin, and the strawberry plants I 

 got from Wisconsin were far ahead of those from Michigan. 



Mr. Johannessohn : I got some from both places, and they did 

 equally well. 



Mr. W. J. Moyle (Wis.) : There is one point that has been 

 overlooked in this discussion. All these old horticulturists will ad- 

 mit that there is one good feature in this matter in that you are 

 able to work up the enthusiasm of the people who buy the pedigreed 

 strawbei-ry plants. They think they have something especially good, 

 better than anybody else, and they give their plants extra care, 

 and in that wav Kellogg's pedigree strawberry plants serve a good 

 purpose. 



PRUNING RASPBERRIES AND BLACKBERRIES. 



The one substantial reason for spring pruning is that the ten- 

 der blackberries and all the raspberries die back more or less 

 through the winter and if pruned in the fall would have to be 

 pruned again in the spring to remove dead wood. Pruning can 

 be extended over a long time and that is quite a convenience. It can 

 be done in March before growth has begun, or it can be delayed till 

 April when the buds will form an easy indication of the amount 

 of live wood. The wood of bush fruits does not bleed like that of 

 the grape vine, and late prunino- does not weaken them. Some 

 growers even wait till the blossoms open in order to measure by 

 the bloom how much wood to leave. And there is good reason in 

 this, for buds do not always form regularly along the cane, and so 

 many inches of wood cannot always be relied on to produce so 

 manv berries. 



