176 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



CURRANTS, GOOSEBERRIES AND JUNEBERRIES. 



Currants, gooseberries and Jiineberries produced a good crop of 

 fruit. Our list of these is very complete, and if the coming season 

 should prove a good one for them I shall be able to report on a 

 large number of new varieties of currants and gooseberries. Our 

 interest especially centers around several hundred gooseberry, cur- 

 rant and Juneberry seedlings of our own raising, some of which 

 produced a small amount of fruit in 1895 for the first time. 



The new varieties of small fruit bearing a crop in 1895 at the 

 university farm that are especially worthy of notice are as follows: 



Royal Church. — This new red raspberry is a little soft for ship- 

 ping, but it is apparently well adapted for the home garden and 

 near market. The bushes are large, healthy, vigorous and produc- 

 tive of bright red berries of excellent flavor. The season is long- 

 The first fruit was picked July 3d and fruit was produced abund- 

 antly until July 25th. Thus far it has been remarkably health j-. 



Kenyoti's Seedling — Has been very productive of good red fruit 

 for several years but has finally succumbed to the disease known as 

 cane rust, and leaf curl. 



King. — A red raspberry received from Thompson's Sons, Rio Vista, 

 Va., in 1894:. It is a vigorous, healthy plant producing a good crop 

 of large, bright red, rather firm berries; season a little earlier than 

 the Cuthbert; very promising. 



Coluinhian — Is a raspberry of the Schafifer type; a very strong 

 grower and very productive; fruit dark red, very closely resembling" 

 the Schaffer. We have fruited it two years, and it shows itself to be 

 well worthy of trial by berry growers. It is especiallj'^ recommended 

 for canning purposes and when thus preserved has a llavor of rare 

 excellence. 



Lucretia Deivberry.—¥or six years we have grown various kinds 

 of dewberries at the university farm without getting a satisfactory 

 crop, while growers of this fruit on sandy land near by have re- 

 ported good results. With us the plants have flowered well but 

 have failed to set j^erfect fruit. In 1895, for the first time, we got a 

 heavy crop of Lucretia dewberries. The fruit was large and was 

 produced in large clusters. It commenced to ripen Julj'^ 12th and 

 continued to produce fruit over two weeks. 



Loganberry. — This is a novelty among fruits and is represented 

 to be a hybrid between the dewberry of the Pacific coast and some 

 raspberry. In habit of growth and methods adopted in pro- 

 pagating it, it resembles the dewberry, since it reclines on the 

 ground and is increased by layers about as easily as the dewberry; 

 but the leaves are closer together, and both leaves and stem are 

 larger than those of the common dewberry. The fruit resembles the 

 blackberry in having the fruit solid, i, e., the core (receptacle) is at- 

 tached firmly to the fruit. The fruit is of a red color, rather 

 lacking in flavor but not unpleasant. The plants have been grown 

 two seasons at the university farm and came through the winter of 

 1894-95 without injury, although covered with earth as it is customary 

 with us to treat ail our raspberries. It has so far been only moder- 



