NOTES ON SMALL FRUIT. 125 
The only variety of perfect-flowering strawberry your committee 
name that I can endorse is Bederwood, and this is going by rust 
unless we resort to spraying with Bordeaux mixture. A much bet- 
ter list, it seems to us after testing two hundred kinds, than the one 
given would be Enhance, Saunders, Splendid and Woolverton. 
These four are perfect in blossom and have proven profitable over a 
wide range of territory. 
To the pistillates named by your committee, “Crescent, Warfield 
and Haverland,”’ we would add Bubach and perhaps Greenville. 
We wish we could reduce the list to two varieties, but it is impos- 
sible. Pistillates, as a rule, are twice as productive as the perfects, 
the production of pollen serving to weaken the plant in fruit forma- 
tion as well as production of plants. The four kinds of perfects we 
have named are vigorous, healthy and productive both in plant and 
fruit. We could name twenty more better on many soils than Capt. 
Jack and Wilson. For fruiting we would advise two pistillates and 
one perfect, alternating in the same row. For the former we would 
say set one long row of perfects and four feet away alongside set a 
row of pistillates, and have not less than two to four varieties in 
each row; then the next spring take plants from the outside of each 
row for two new rows; so continue, fruiting each for two years, at 
least. 
If Shuckless proves productive it may be not only a norelty but 
a choice family berry, and as it is perfect in blossom, healthy in 
foliage and a good plant maker, we have much reason to hope. The 
new kinds that make wonderful promise are legion, but it takes a 
pocketbook and two years, at least, to prove anything in the straw- 
berry list. 
In conclusion, allow me to express my personal congratulations 
to your state society, officers, members and citizens of Lake City for 
courtesies received during my short stay. I would suggest to your 
Forestry Association that you take measures to plant or, at least, 
recommend for general planting the variety of timber you call 
“Underwood.’’ 
TOPWORKING HARDY STOCK. 
EDSON GAYLORD, NORA SPRINGS, IOWA. 
I now refer to the recent development brought out by topworking 
our half and three-fourths hardy choice varieties onto extremely 
hardy stock trees. I hardly have words to express the unbounded 
confidence I have in the recent development brought out in our 
neighborhood. Were our successful efforts confined to one variety, 
to one tree or even to one orchard, which might, perchance, have 
been favorably located, trained and cared for, we might have reasons 
for doubts, but the experiments I now refer you to have been made 
on a great variety of stock trees as well as by the use of a great vari- 
ety of cions,not in one orchard or on one tree,but inten orchards and 
on a hundred trees and with a great number of our old choice varie- 
, ties that we have learned to love so well in former years. Further, 
had we grown these fruits referred to by grafting them since ’85, we 
