252 ANNUAL REPORT. 



President Smith said the Glendales were larger than the Sharp- 

 less on the average, and he also found them excellent for shipping. 



Mr. Bussee complained that they would not ripen at the tip of 

 the berry. 



Secretary Gibbs. I like the Glendale, but unless it has deep 

 ■cultivation or plenty of water, the foliage is liable to sunburn. It 

 evaporates moisture in great quantities, which must be supplied or 

 it will not do well. Its foliage is very rank when well grown, 

 and fruit large accordingly. 



Mr. Sias, They are too tart. 



Mr. Pearce. It gives the best satisfajtion of any berry with me. 

 It should be well mulched. It is very late — a most desirable 

 quality and excellent for canning. It also has abundent pollen, 

 and is a good fertilizer for the Crescent. Set in alternate rows 

 with Crescent. 



Secretary Gibbs. As to color of the strawberry, its firmness or 

 softness, its texture, its continuous bearing throughout the season, 

 and even as to its quality, we are forever at sea, and contradicting 

 ourselves and each other, unless we state every time whether a 

 berry is growing alone or in company with some other, and if in 

 company, what its adjacent varieties are. I am satisfied that we 

 not onl}'' make the pistil! ates bear by fertilizing with pollen of the 

 staminates, as everybody knows to be the case, but that there is 

 an immediate influence upon the pulp of the berry, and not only 

 from staminates to pistillates, but from staminates to staminates. 

 I will not take time to state the facts here, but will try to get 

 some of them in shape for our Annual Report; and I ask you all to 

 watch your strawberry plants and see what conclusions you come 

 to. I think you will find in this suggestion a solution of some of 

 our most puzzling things about the strawberry, and discover a 

 remed}' for the deficiencies of -some of the sorts we so regretfully 

 fail with now. 



On motion of Secretary Gibbs, a vote of thanks was tendered to 

 J. C. Plumb, of Milton, Wisconsin, for his valuable services at this 

 meeting. 



Prof. Porter, on behalf of the University of Minnesota, thanked 

 the society for meeting in their rooms, and on his motion, the 

 society then adjourned to meet in June next, at the call of the 

 executive committee. 



