292 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
DISCUSSION. 
Mr. Underwood: I would like to have Mr. Cook inform us 
about the productiveness of the dewberry? 
Mr. Cook: Ihave introduced the dewberry and sent it around 
pretty widely. Among other varieties that I have tested are 
the Baratelle and the Mammoth. After considerable trial I 
now think that they are not as profitable to the beginner in 
fruit growing as some of the other berries. I think he had 
better first grow the strawberry, and then the raspberry, and 
then if he wants something in the blackberry line let him take 
up the dewberry. It will stand our dzy winds better than the 
blackberry, but where the blackberry can be grown success- 
fully it is useless to try the dewberry. I have grown some. 
very fine dewberries this year in the shade, where it was so 
dense that I had to hunt for the vines. - It seems to need the 
shade. : 
Mr. Underwood: Does it need covering? 
Mr. Cook: I have found that it does. 
Mr. Harris: Do you cultivate the dewberries? 
Mr. Cook: I have used a cultivator but I am now trying 
them without, by letting them grow in the long grass. I let 
them go about two years and then plow over again. 
Mr. Sampson: Do you prune the dewberry? 
Mr. Cook: No, sir, I do not. 
Mr. Perry: I wish to take exception to the expressions in 
regard to the Turner. I think the Turner is the standard ber- | 
ry for Minnesota. There is one thing more I want to note— 
you must keep down the suckers thoroughly. 
Mr. Sampson: The Turner mildewed with me, but perhaps 
it was because my soil is too rich. 
Mr. Thayer: Is your raspberry patch on wet ‘mecteae 
Mr. Sampson: No, itis on very dry ground on the eastern 
slope of a side hill. 
Mr. Ludlow: The only nice Turners I ever grew were in the 
shade of my black walnut tree. Where they are put out in the 
sun they dry up with me a good deal worse than some other va- 
rieties. I find that the Clark has done the best with me. 
' Mr. Richardson: I have tried the Clark some twenty years, 
and I could not make it succeed because it always winter 
killed. My experience has been that the Turner is far ahead 
of it. I got my Clarks of Mr. Knox, of Pittsburg, Pa., so they 
