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berry. You put a few in a box and you have more straw than 

 berry. I would refer to another point in regard to the Glen- 

 dale; it is very late to set beside the Crescent. The farmer 

 can choose as you have four other varieties, and he can have 

 two late ones. Beside the Crescent he can set the May King, 

 either one of those two, and can set beside the latter kinds, 

 Captain Jack. If the Glendale is doing well in your locality 

 do not refuse it. If a neighbor has anything in the way of 

 fruit that is doing well go for that variety, I do not care what 

 it is. 



Wm. Somerville: You are well aware that when I recom- 

 mended our Red Wing people to set out berries they naturally 

 asked the question, What would you recommend? and how 

 would you set them? I have recommended setting alternate 

 rows, one or the other of the five or six varieties, and they 

 have generally been satisfied with that. I have questioned 

 different parties to find out if this gave general satisfaction, 

 and it is the general consent of all parties that that was as 

 good as we could recommend. 



J. S. Harris: Mr. Somerville is talking from a farmer's 

 standpoint and I think his recommendation is a good one. The 

 commercial gardener would want to plant a little different. 

 Instead of planting alternate rows he would want as many vari- 

 eties of the other as he could get, and would want a staminate 

 variety on the outside of them as a fertilizer for the whole 

 patch. As Mr. Somerville's work is with the farmers I think it 

 is a very good idea to have even staminate varieties among the 

 pistillate, but I think it would do as well to have two and two. 



Mrs. Anna Bonniwell: I hope if Mr. Somerville comes to 

 our place, Hutchinson, he will not recommend the Captain 

 Jack, because it does not do well with us. 



J. H. Wilcox: In view of the fact that our friend Somerville 

 is recommending the list he is giving us to farmers for cultiva- 

 tion, I would like to ask if there is any one present who has 

 had experience with and made a success of cultivating May 

 King? 



M. Cutler: I have had the May King the ]ast three seasons. 

 Two years ago last spring I set it out and it does well with me, 

 bearing a good crop. Of course, the two last seasons have 

 been rather unfavorable for all kinds of fruit; but the Jessie I 

 think is ahead of the May King; it is just as rank growing a 

 plant and produces a larger berry, and I would select the Jes- 

 sie in preference to the May King. 



