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BLACKBERRIES. Among the blackberries that we have tried are 
included all the promising sorts of the old list, and most of the new ones 
of promising hardiness. As yet we have found nothing which combined 
as many good qualities as the Ancient Briton, and this variety is very 
superior on our land to any other that we have tried. Fhe fruit on the Sny- 
der ripens earlier, but the plants do not produce more than a third as much 
as the Briton. Stone’s Hardy has been so very unsatisfactory on our land 
that we have taken up and thrown away all the plants of it that we had 
formerly growing here. 
SEEDLING RASPBERRIES. About six years ago we raised some 
700 seedlings from the Schaffer’s Colossal raspberry, and among them we 
find varieties with red, purple and black fruit, and some that increase by 
suckers from the root, but most of them increase by tip layers. This seems 
to verify what has been believed for many years by the best botanists,— 
that Schaffer’s Colossal, and probably the Columbian and similar berries, 
are the result of hybridization between the red and black raspberries. 
These seedlings have all been thrown away except about sixteen kinds, 
which are now being tested on a larger scale, with the idea of determining 
whether they are worth sending out for distribution. 
We also have about one hundred seedlings from the Marlborough, 
and about one hundred choice red sorts of raspberries, which ought to fruit 
next year. 
CURRANTS.—Among these we have little of special interest to report 
at this time. The varieties recommended by our State Horticultural Society, 
including the Red Dutch, Victoria, Stewart’s Seedling, of the red sorts, and 
White Grape, of the white sorts, are kinds that have proven most valuable 
here. Injury from the currant worm has been common with us for eight 
or nine years, but it is as easy to destroy it as it is to destroy the potato 
bug by the use of Paris green or by white hellebore. The currant borer 
has not been as numerous the past two years as for several years previous to 
that time, when they were exceedingly abundant. 
GOOSEBERRIES.—Among these we find that the Houghton 
and the Downing of the older varieties still hold their own, and 
the only new rival for popular favor, judging from our experience, 
is the Champion, which is a _ strong-growing, vigorous’ variety 
with large fruit. The Pearl seems to be another Downing. Col- 
umbus seems to be doing the best of the large fruiting sorts, 
but there are none of these large fruiting sorts that do especially well with 
us. The list of this class which we have tried and found to be of little value 
includes the Triumph, Puyallup, Mammoth, Red Jacket, Chatauqua, Orange, 
Strubler’s Early, Industry, Crown Bob, Whitesmith. We have fruited per- 
haps 200 seedlings within two years, and have propagated a few of the best 
of them for distribution. Most of these are seedlings from the Downing, 
and some of them very closely resemble the parent. 
DEWBERRY. We have never sticceeded in fruiting the dewberry ex- 
cept in but one season, which was in the dry year of 1894, when it yielded 
far better than any of our blackberries. We have grown Austin’s Im- 
proved, Windom, Bartell’s Mammoth and Lucretia, but have found none of 
them reliable. All of them would flower well in the spring, but they 
failed to set fruit. At one time it was recommended to set dewberries near 
to the blackberries, as it was believed by some of our horticulturists that 
