124 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Reeves : I do not lay any raspberries down. It is the most 

 hardy I know of. 



Mr. L. R. Moyer : I do not want anybodj^ to get the impression 

 from Mr. Cook's paper that it is not worth while planting raspberries 

 on the prairie. We have better success with raspberries than with 

 any other fruit. The first we have in the spring- is the Palmer, then 

 the Souhegan. The Palmer is quite a bit earlier, a week or ten days 

 earlier, than the Gregg or Nemaha, but I do not like the Nemaha as 

 well as the Gregg. It seems to be more woody. I have been very 

 much encouraged with blackcaps. We have given up trying to raise 

 strawberries, but we succeed well with blackcaps. I have grown 

 them for fifteen to twenty years. 



Mr. Richardson : In our country it seems to do well on all sorts 

 of soil. It responds readily to good care and cultivation and seems 

 to do well on any soil. 



Mr. Bush : The thought was brought out here that the blackcap 

 was better appreciated in the country than any other variety. It 

 does splendidly on every kind of soil. I have disposed of my crop 

 for the last two or three years right among my neighbors. One of 

 my neighbors has picked my fruit on shares, furnishing his own 

 boxes, and we have never succeeded in raising as many blackcaps 

 as our neighbors wanted. 

 Mr. Bunnell : How does the price compare with the red? 

 Mr. Bush : I get more for them than for the red— fully as much 

 anyway. 



Mr. Bunnell : I find in the market at St. Paul the price is not as 

 high as for the red ones. 



Mr. Yahnke : In our market I always get two cents less for the 

 black than for the red, and I do not see how any one can afford to 

 lay down raspberries and come out even. 



Mr. C. L. Smith : And I do not see how anybody can afford to 

 raise black raspberries and not cover them and come out even. 



Mr. Philips (Wisconsin): The best black raspberry I have I do 

 not know what it is. I stopped ofif at Worthington once to see the 

 old Okabena tree. I found Mr. Ludlow, and after looking at the tree 

 I found he had a peculiar black raspberry, a very nice berry. It was 

 in the latter part of June, and he was selling them for twenty-five 

 cents a quart, all he could pick, and I found they were marketing 

 those berries seven days earlier than they were marketing the first 

 ones at Sparta. He was selling them seven days before Thayer 

 commenced selling his first berries. I had him send me a dozen 

 plants. They need no care ; they have never been laid down ; they 

 grow from the tips, and they always give me a good crop. He had 

 no name for them. 



Mr. Reeves (Iowa): There is a black raspberry in that country 

 that is native. 



Mr. C. L. Smith : The best I could find out about that raspberry 

 was that twenty-six or twenty-seven j'ears ago there was a lot of 

 Doolittles planted there; the birds carried the seeds into the grove, 

 and out of those seedlings came that black raspberry. 



Mr. E. G. E. Reel : I would like to know what it costs to plant an 

 acre of black raspberries. 



