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badly if not laid down and covered up. The Caroline is alsoa yel- 
low berry, of good size and quality, hardier than the Yellow Queen 
for family use. I think Shafer’s Collosal is first choice. The fruit 
is large, purple in color; not a good market berry, it being soft and 
the color not favorable. It is a hybrid between the blackcap and the 
red, and has to be propagated from the tips the same as blackcaps. 
For blackcaps, the Ohio is a vigorous grower, fruit large and shin- 
ing black, of a fine flavor; a good market berry. Souhegan, highly 
recommended, but Ihave none. The Gregg is a good variety. The 
Tyler bears fruit not so large as the Ohio, but earlier. 
Now for their care after fruiting. I believe, in any exposed loca- 
tion, it pays to cover them up in winter. You get more fruit, and 
there is more vitality in the canes to mature their crop. All canes 
will kill back more or less in the winter unless covered. Yet there 
are favorable locations where the snow will drift in and partially 
cover, and then I do not believe it pays to cover every winter. In 
covering, it is best to remove all old canes out of the hill, leaving 
but five or six canes in a hill, then burn what you have cut off, so 
destroying any insects that may have been in the old canes. Com- 
mence at the end of the row and take some ground away from the 
side you want to lay them down; then goto the other side of hill, 
putting your foot near the roots of the cane and your spade under 
the hill. They are easily bent down. Then to the next hill, laying the 
tops of one hill to the roots of the other, till you get your rows laid 
down, just putting dirt on the tops to hold them down; then you can 
cover with mulchor dirt, and the work is finished. The next spring 
you can uncover, commencing at the other end from where you be- 
gan laying them down. Raise them with a fork. 
Through the summer, when the young canes are growing, they 
should never be allowed to get more than five feet high before cut- 
ting the tops off. They will throw out laterals and produce more 
fruit for the cutting. 
DISCUSSION. 
Wm. Somerville: Mr. President, I have taken some pains in 
writing this paper, not directly for this organization, but for 
the benefit of the farm2rs in general, and I have given the 
paper I was to have read here to Mr. Gregg to be published 
in his book, which is published and issued annually for the 
benefit of the farmer. I do not know that the paper would be 
practical for the commercial gardener, but it is made up from 
my experience as a farmer, in my own garden, at my home, 
where I try to make everything as pleasant as I can. I wrote 
this paper on that principle, not particularly for those who are 
here, but for the benefit of those who are not here to take part 
in our deliberations. I look at this matter as though the 
farmers were entitled to all the knowledge that we can give 
them. We come together here from all parts of the state, and 
we talk these things over among ourselves, but there is such a 
