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don't think that will trouble them. I have observed, that when the 

 vines are cut back in the way I have spoken of, they do not blight, 

 and this method of covering I think will be a grand success. 



Mr. Harris. Mr. President, I have been troubled with the blight 

 and once I found it was occasioned by chintz bugs working on the 

 berry. I don't cover raspberries, that is the blackcaps. I have found 

 that the Doolittle and the Seneca will form their berries and promise 

 a good crop, and then, with the hot weather in June, about in straw- 

 berry time, the berries will all dry up. The chintz bugs may cause 

 the blight, and do with us some times, but it is oftener caused by the 

 canes being somewhat injured in the winter. 



Mr. Kellogg. Mr. President, I don't want to prolong the discussion, 

 but I would like to call attention to the necessity of taking the plants 

 up early in the spring before the buds form. If you leave them down 

 until after the buds form, (and we believe in covering the whole cane), 

 they are more tender; but if you take them up just before a cold night 

 you may lose your crop. I lost a portion of mine last spring. Then 

 after they are up, give them a thorough mulching to prevent drought 

 in the summer. 



Mr. Whipple. Mr. President, I have had a little experience with 

 small fruit. I always have taken pride in the success we have had. 

 Now, it is said that the Gregg and Cuthbert are the latest bearers we 

 have; but for several years, since I have been growing them I have 

 found they were out of the market before the old variety that we have 

 had ever since I have been growing fruit, (and that is twenty years), 

 was still on the briers. That the covering of the Greggs warrants the 

 success that has been told, I fail to see. I know one of the most 

 experienced men with the black raspberry — I think one of the most 

 experienced in the State — last season left his customers, and I had to 

 carry them along for over a week when he could not supply them with 

 his Greggs and Cutbberts; and he has made up his mind that he is 

 going back to my old raspberries, the old Philadelphia. I will venture 

 to say that I can grow that longer, every season, with the same culti- 

 vation than you can the Gregg or Cuthbert. I can give you dates of 

 our last sales, and the names of customers to show that it is still fruit- 

 ing when other kinds are gone. 



Mr. Cutler. I would like to ask if there is any member here that is 

 residing in this part of the country that has had good success with the 

 Ancient Briton blackberry. 



Mr. Harris. The only gentleman that I know of that has been 



