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Mr. Hamilton: From Wales. 
Dr. Frisselle: What is your opinion of the Snyder? 
Mr. Hamilton: I think that it is a little hardier than the 
Briton, and in some respects it is a better berry than the 
Briton for the farmer, because it is almost impossible to 
get our farmers to take any care of the blackberry. I 
think the chances of the Snyder living through the cold weather 
is better than that of the Briton. I would be glad to find a 
blackberry that is perfectly hardy. 
Mr. Wilcox: Is the Snyder productive on sandy soil? 
Mr. Hamilton: Yes, sir, it is. 
Mr. Ludlow; I find that the Briton holds the size all through 
the season. The Snyder gets very small along towards the 
last. 
A Member: I think that must be owing to the dry weather. 
I have never noticed anything of the kind with my Snyders. 
Mr. Ludlow: That may beso. The first year I put them 
out they did not grow small as in later years, and I remember 
now that first year was a wet year. 
A WOMAN’S EXPERIENCE IN RAISING SMALL FRUITS. 
MRS. ANNA B. UNDERWOOD, LAKE CITY. 
Experience implies failures as well as successes, and these are not al- 
ways pleasint to contemplate or rehearse. The thought of a failure, even 
in review, has a depressing effect, and toa great extent modifies the keen 
pleasures of success; still failures are lessons and, if followed by improve- 
ment, are profitable. Continuous good crops, just think how monotonous 
it would be! Always good crops! How tiresomely dull as compared with 
the excitement of an occasional bad year, the delightful uncertainties of 
every year until the crop is harvested, and account of stock taken and 
balance struck, and you know whether it is on the Dr. or Cr. side. The 
old trite saying ‘‘Variety is the spice of life,” is true with regard to the 
‘small fruit” industry. Why, there would beno earthly need of horticul- 
tural societies, if there were no failures to recount! And just think how 
much we should miss! Really we must admit that failures are useful, 
necessary and entertaining—to others. 
To give a detailed account since 1884, when I first took up the work, 
would fill too many pages and take up too much time; and I take it, that 
to give methods of procedureduring the past eight years, would be simply 
reiterating what has been said, and so well said, over and over again at 
the yearly meetings of the Horticultural Society, and embodied in their 
reports. 
