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The dwarf Juneberry, as usual, is bearing a heavy crop, and that 
: in spite of the May frosts. Anyone can grow the PURE Perey: and 
birds do not bother them more than other fruit. 
I have one hundred seedling Dakota sand cherry bushes, set the 
spring of ’93 on black and heavily manured soil. They are proving 
a wonder in vigor and productiveness. Like the Juneberry, they 
have no fungus or insect enemies. 
It is not an easy matter to report upon raspberries so that the 
public will understand thesituation. As arule,all raspberries have 
been a failure in this section, not only this season but for several 
seasons past, and, on account of the fungus disease known as 
anthracnose plants are more healthy on the hill soil than upon our 
nearly level prairie. Plants that are fully exposed to the winds are 
most affected, while those growing in sheltered places are affected 
much less and those in the shade usually none atall. Winter pro- 
tection does not savea diseased plant. I have done some spraying 
with Bordeaux mixture with good results, but that is a preventative 
and notacure. I have six hills of the Shaffer’s that looked last fall 
as though they were doomed,they were so badly affected. I then cut 
off the canes of two of the hills near the ground, pruned two more 
of the hills rather close and left two of the hills untouched. 
Now, the result is that the two hills cut off at the ground are 
growing vigorously and there will be a few berries on the new 
growth; those that were pruned now promise a good crop; those 
that were left untouched look as though they were about dead, roots 
and all. No winter protection was givenin any case. The Hansel 
red raspberry is now beginning to ripen and is my first early; the 
Palmer will begin to ripen in a couple of days, making it my best 
early blackcap; the canes also excelin vigorous growth and hardi- 
ness; the Souhegan is a success as a main crop berry. 
The dwarf Rocky Mountain cherry proves to be a variety of our 
Western Sand cherry. My two plantscame from the introducer at 
Fort Collins, Colorado, the spring of 1893. They bloomed full the 
past spring but no fruit—too much frost. They are perfectly hardy 
in the most exposed place, and they bloom a little later than the 
Dakota or Nebraska sand cherry. The fruit of this cherry will, no 
doubt, prove variable, as seedlings of it have been introduced 
instead of plants from the original tree. 
EUREKA EXPERIMENT STATION. 
C. W. SAMPSON, SUPT. 
My grape vines came through the winter in good condition, I 
took them out of the ground April twentieth, and the buds immedi- 
ately started and madea healthy growth. The severe frost we had 
May eighteenth did not hurt them in the least, as they were located 
on high ground and very near the lake. My first vines bloomed 
June fifth; variety, Durant Amber. I noticed the leaf hopper was 
quite bad on the young vines, but the recent hard rains seemed to 
drive them away. I have one vine of the Telegraph about six feet 
long which had set eighty bunches of grapes, and I noticed that 
the grapes fell off from every single cluster. My grapes are all set 
very full of fruit and promise well fora full crop. Moore’s Early 
are unusually well set to fruit. 
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