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would live for many years, but they died out with me after they 

 were well started. 



Mrs. Bonniwell. We had bought a good many plants of goose- 

 berries but they seemed not to do very well, and we went out into 

 the woods, and gathered a lot of plants and cultivated them, and 

 we found they were much larger and not so sour as those we had 

 bought. Then we took up a lot of those highbush cranberries, set 

 them out, and I mast say they are very ornamental in the Spring, 

 and also in the Fall. 



Mr. Pond. I don't know as I am acquainted with what they call 

 sand cherries. I have tried to raise what they call sand cherries, 

 but I never succeeded in getting any fruit. 



Mr. Gibbs. Mr. President I wish to say a word about those 

 sand cherries that may be helpful to our friends here. It is prob- 

 able that a mixing of different varieties of the same species of 

 sand cherries, may be necessary to make it do well iu different 

 situations. I have watched this shrub wherever I have had an op- 

 portunity in South Dakota, and I found that, as has been reported 

 in Minnesota, in places it is not bearing; but I also saw it bearing 

 heavily both on light soils, and on heavy soils. My impression is 

 (although I could not substantiate it by actual facts to any great 

 extent), that where you find the sand cherry growing thriftily and 

 not bearing well, it is because it lacks some other sand cherry 

 bush near it to fertilize its blossoms. If you can get plants from 

 different localities, or if you have a chance to observe them, and 

 get plants that have a slight variation and get them mixed up> you 

 will have no difficulty in making them bear. When it does bear, 

 it bears very abundently. I do not know of any fruit that will 

 bear as many pounds oE fruit for the size of plant. It is an annual 

 bearer also. 



Mr. Day. The sand berries grow wild on the prairies, where 

 I live. I will give a little experience. I once bought some trees 

 that they called the rocky mountain cherries, for which I gave 

 seventy-five cents apiece. I planted them and intwoor three years 

 they bore profusely very nice large berries. 



Mr. Sampson. I would like to draw some information in re- 

 gard to the high bush blueberry. As I understand, from what 

 I have heard, the ordinary blueberry will not bear cultivation, but 

 I have heard that the high bush berry will stand cultivation, 

 and on this point I would like to gain some information. 



Mr. Dartt. I had some sent to me last spring from Wisconsin 

 woods and I set them out, but unfortunately the drought killed 



