164 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



C. L. Smith: In regard to this juneberry. Out in Montana 

 I found the juneberry under the name of sand cherry. They 

 were brought in by wagon loads and sold for three dollars per 

 bushel. The bushes growing from four to six feet in height and 

 so loaded with berries that they would bend to the ground, and I 

 could not see any difference between them and those grown in 

 Minnesota. They are a dark purple, and out there they grow 

 quite large, sometimes one-half inch in diameter, and the bushes 

 are literally loaded with fruit. 



A member: Do you know anything about the white rasp- 

 berry? 



J. S. Harris: I have seen it in this state, but it is a very shy 

 fruiter, but I have not seen it for the last fifteen or twenty 

 years. 



Dr. Walker: In regard to the Arctic raspberry I spoke to 

 you about, it is a very hardy plant indeed. The bushes stand 

 up over the snow looking like a stubble field, so they are not 

 protected by the snow and I think it does not winter kill. In 

 speaking of a disease that attacks the different varieties, I do 

 not know whether that variety was attacked as much as the 

 others or not. The place where it was most plenteously found 

 is near Leach lake. The only difference I could see between 

 those and the common wild red raspberry was that they did - 

 not have as much bloom on them as the wild raspberry and 

 were much sweeter. 



Geo. J. Kellogg: There is one good point in this valuable 

 paper. We are glad to know that the curculio, black rot and 

 rust got up there before we did — downy mildew and everything 

 else. 



Col. Stevens: In regard to blueberries, I would ask the 

 Doctor how many different varieties there are. The whortle- 

 berry and huckleberry belong to the same family. I was sur- 

 prised, last July, to read in the American Garden what I did in 

 regard to the whortleberry and huckleberry. I never knew 

 before that there were over eighty varieties. I got acquainted 

 with them all the way through the Pacific slope and I had no 

 idea that the varieties exceeded more than one fourth that 

 number. 



Dr. Walker: Of the blueberry I think there are some twenty 

 varieties, andof the huckleberry there are three times as many, 

 and we have most of the varieties of blueberries in this state. 

 I understand tnere are some huckleberries west of Minneapolis 

 and some on the Mississippi river below here, according to 



