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about Janesville this season has been intense, but a three-fourths 
acre plantation of this variety in its second year of fruiting is a 
sight not soon to be forgotten. The canes were literally loaded to 
their fullest and bending to the ground under the weight of the 
fruit. The fruit is very large and of an attractive red color that does 
not fade. The flavor is the finest of all raspberries, the fruit not 
dry and seedy, but possessing a firmness and consistency that en- 
ables it to stand shipping safely a thousand miles. The fruit hangs 
well on the plant after it is ripe, is not easily beaten off or injured 
by rains and keeps longer after picking than any other variety we 
have ever seen. None of our party were expert pickers, but several 
of them, being timed, managed to pick a full quart each in five min- 
utes. Good pickers could have averaged a hundred quarts per day. We 
are told that last year a plantation of them yielded at the rate of 200 
bushels per acre, and we should estimate that the patch will not 
fall much below that. The foliage this year shows no indication of 
weakness, and the yield of fruit is more than double that of other 
varieties adjoining on the same farm. We cannot but believe 
that Mr. Loudon has given the worlda most valuable fruit, and that 
no fruit grower can afford to be long without a patch of it. 
Mr. Loudon is now seventy-five years of age and has spent many 
of the best years of his life in trying to improve our small fruits by 
raising seedlings. He is the originator of the Jessie strawberry and 
several others not yet on the market. A genial old man, whose 
works will live long after he goes to his reward. He has sowed for 
others to reap. 
HORTICULTURAL FRAUDS. (A TALK.) 
E.H S. DARTT, OWATONNA. 
Mr. President: I think this topicin our society is altogether 
out of place; yet if we have any frauds in our society it is our 
duty to point them out and bring them prominently before the 
public. Now, it has been said that ‘‘There are tricks in all 
trades but ours,” and I think that applies and should be 
understood to mean that we have been foolish enough to ex- 
pose our own tricks. You know that ‘‘A house divided against 
itself cannot stand,” and if we go to work exposing these tricks 
here we shall get into trouble; we shall accuse some member 
of something he has or has not been guilty of, and he will ac- 
cuse us of something we are or are not guilty of, and we will 
get up a regular family quarrel, and family quarrels of all 
things should be avoided. 
This topic was assigned me by yoursecretary. I suppose he 
went on the theory that ‘‘It takes a rogue to catch a rogue,” 
and I went to thinking the matter over and wondering what I 
should say or what I should write. I thought of all the mem- 
