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expectation that with the reputation it had elsewhere made of 

 rusting badly it would be very much, subject to rust. It 

 was one of the healthiest and stood fourth or fifth in point of 

 vigor among forty varieties. So I feel like giving it a good 

 mark. 



Professor Williams, Brookings, S. D. : Might it not be well 

 for us to watch the wild strawberries a little ? In that way we 

 might get considerable knowledge of that disease, as they are 

 affected by the same rust that our cultivated varieties suffer 

 from. We find that in some regions where the strawberry 

 grows naturally, it is very badly affected by rast, and again, in 

 other regions it is entirely free from it. It might be, too, that 

 in this lies the solution to Mr. Cook's trouble. Although it was 

 the first year that he planted strawberries on that ground, 

 there might have been wild strawberries there, and they might 

 have started the rust in his patch. 



KEPOET ON SMALL FRUITS. 



MRS. A. A. KENNEDY, HUTCHINSON. 



I am afraid my report will be rather meager, as my observations have 

 been limited, but I am glad to notice that fruit raising is on the increase. 

 When we moved into the neighborhood where we now reside, ten years 

 ago, there were a few orchards of Transcendents; there were no rasp- 

 berries, strawberries or grapes. Now, in a radius of five miles, I can count 

 forty families that are raising more or less small fruit. But I can hardly 

 tell what kinds are doing the best, as they have bought of agents and do 

 not know what kinds they have. 



On my own grounds the Turner raspberries have done the best. Cuth- 

 berts have never winter-killed, but are not as prolific as the Turner. 

 Taylor's Prolific proved almost a failure. The Marlboro has not made a 

 very good growth so far. Of blackberries, the Snyder has done the best; 

 have not covered them: they winter-killed some. Ancient Briton and 

 Stone's Hardy did not survive the first winter. 



Of all the different varieties of strawberries I have tried. Crescent and 

 Charles Downing have proved the best. Jessie and Bubach have been a 

 failure so far. Have tried what we bought for Warlield No, 2 two sea- 

 sons, and they have not borne a berry. Mr. Harris says they are not true 

 to name. The Manchester does well. Park's Beauty winter-kills and 

 the berries are not first-class. The Princess and Lady Rusk are on trial. 

 Crescent and Glendale made a good growth, but the fruit was like angel's 

 visits, "few and far between." I have the Monmouth and First Season 

 on trial. The Monmouth winter-killed badly. First Season made a won- 

 derful growth last summer; I let one stem of fruit grow and the berries 

 were large, firm and of fine flavor; it promises to be the best 1 have. I 

 received of Prof. Green, one year ago, the Pearl and Michel's Early; 



