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for examination, and trust you to give a report of them if you 

 desire. Hope I will have some fruit from trees raised by my 

 new method. As soon as they show their fruit I am ready to 

 give a full report and a history of them. Think I shall have 

 good success and that they will prove to be hardy trees. 



Grapes are healthy at present, the wood being sound and ripe. 

 The crop was small. Concord is so far the grape that seems to 

 be best adapted to the climate of the IS^orthwest, Have some 

 new seedlings that have not been fairly tested. Have two new 

 grapes of value, and will send a specimen of one kind. Am on 

 track of some good seedling apples and will get hold of them if 

 possible. 



Strawberries. — The crop was light. My best so far is my 

 seedling No. 2. It is late, good bearer, healthy, dark leaf, fruit 

 dark; have counted twenty-seven berries on one stem. It is a 

 pistillate berry. Have one newer variety, which I think will 

 bear next season. 



Raspberries. — Have three new red seedling raspberries, all 

 distinct, or different from each other. One of them is a full 

 type, that is, renews from the top; another is hard to produce 

 plants from; both splendid bearers, rank growers, hardy enough 

 for Siberia; the third is a sucker from the roots. I discovered 

 it in 1883; last spring the ground was broken and I noticed about 

 a dozen canes that came up, but I paid no attention to it until 

 late in the fall, when we had some visitors. We were passing 

 around showing the remarkable vines and leaves, which were 

 three times iis large as usual, and they were astonished to find 

 fifty-three berries on one cane. The largest one measured one 

 and one-eighth inches in diameter, or three and three-eighths 

 inches in circumference, and I kept that berry for nine days in 

 good condition. What the result will be with this kind I do not 

 know; another season will tell. Yours respectfully, 



John C. Kramer. 



discussion. 



Mr. Harris. Mr. Kramer is always making experiments. He 

 has been experimenting for yea'^s with raspberries and straw- 

 berries, and he is a wideawake man. He had a very fine rasp- 

 berry on which he was experimenting but he would not give me 

 any of the plants, and he used to watch me pretty close, afraid I 

 would take the plants, I suppose. He has originated hundreds 



