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them. I expect to get more, and hope after awhile to know more 

 about them than I do now. 



President Elliot. About three years ago, I had some of them 

 sent to me. I tried to raise them but they proved a failure. 



A Member. I notice about the lakes here, a shrub that we call 

 the Juneberry. I have seen that in some places, where they 

 were very much finer than any high blueberry that I ever saw. 



President Elliot. In the early days when fruit was very scarce, 

 when we did not have very many cultivated fruits in our gardens, 

 of course we were looking around pretty closely for anything out 

 of nature's orchard that we could appropriate and there were some 

 sections around the lakes where we could go and gather blue- 

 berries by the pailful, but when we tried to cultivate them we did 

 not meet with success. I think nothing can be done with them 

 unless you happen to get some that are a remove from the native 

 variety. If you can cross-fertilize them with something else per- 

 haps you may succeed, but to attempt to count much on them just 

 in their native state is not wise. 



Col. Stevens. In reference to the sand cherry, I think it can 

 be cultivated. The blueberry, I know, can be. Any species of 

 blueberry that we have, whortleberries, or whatever you call them, 

 can be cultivated and successfully cultivated. That I know. The 

 sand cherry, I have not had so much experience with, but the 

 whortleberry, the blueberry, and the huckleberry can all be culti- 

 vated. 



Mr. Barrett. The native sand cherry is a great bearer and will 

 bear so heavily, that the limbs will hang down on the ground, and 

 I find it the most hardy and prolific shrub I have. It is a native 

 plant. To say that they cannot be grown, is against the grain of 

 my experience. I can recommend it in our section of country; 

 our farmers are producing it, because they cannot grow any other 

 cherry with any degree of success. I want President Elliot to 

 defend himself more emphatically or to take back what he said. I 

 failed on the blueberry; I wish we could make it a success. If 

 anyone can instruct me so that I can report to my friends how to 

 manage it I will try again. 



Mr. Grimes. You raise too many boys and too few plums, — not 

 enough to go ar jund. 



President Elliot. Now, I stated a fact as far as I am concerned, 

 that I have had no success with it, but I do not want you to accept 

 what I have done as conclusive. Let each one take hold of this 

 matter and try to do something. I think here is a wide field for 

 investigation, not only with the sand cherry but with dozens of 



