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berries were going slow at 10c per three 

 boxes. Grow good fruit or none if you 

 want profit. 



SHARPLESS STRAWBERRY 



does not bear well on my soil. But my 

 soil is poor, my business (plant growing) 

 not requiring great fertility. This 

 variety wants rich soil, and iuiproves 

 remarkably with fertility. 1 get most 

 remarkable accounts of its productive- 

 ness from growers at Barrie. It has the 

 peculiarity of yielding better the second 

 " full-crop" than the first. 



DO RASPBERRIES PAY '] 



They pay me. Two-thirds of an acre 

 yielded me a crop that sold for over 

 $100, without an ounce of manure 

 having been applied for two yeai-s, and 

 with only one hoeing this year at a cost 

 of, say $3. Was it weedy 1 Yes ! Now 

 some one tell me to practice what I 

 preach, for I advocate clean culture. 

 But the point is, the crop was there. 

 Highland hardy and Turner ai"e not 

 the largest of berries, especially under 

 neglect, yet they averaged about nine 

 cents per quart around town in this 

 season of unusual abundance of wild 

 berries. 



Shaffer's colossal 

 is the berry for home use or for canning. 

 How the bushes do yield '? I think one 

 year plants bear about as much as full- 

 grown bushes of other sorts. Purchasers 

 object to the color, which is an un- 

 attractive maroon, but a little testing 

 and a cent per quart of decrease in 

 price reassures them. The quality is 

 said to be rather " acid," but we find it 

 has the singular merit of tasting better 

 than we expected from report. 



BUT THE CUTHBERT 



stands easily first among all tested red 

 raspberi'ies. The Vjush is rather slender 

 in growth the first year or two, but with 

 age easily stretches up six feet. And 

 the fruit possesses the rather singular 

 combination of good flavor, along with 



beauty, good size, and firmness for 



shipping. Its lateness leaves room for 

 a good early berry, but with its excel- 

 lent pi'oductiveness it will prove hard to 

 beat wherever it stands the winter, as 

 well as it does in this northern lake 

 I'egion. 



THE GREGG 



occupies among black caps the place 

 that the Cuthbert does among the reds. 

 Yet the Gregg does not seem to be 

 quite so hardy, nor will it succeed so 

 well on sandy land. Still its great size, 

 good quality, and especially its firmness, 

 make it yet valuable to fruit growers. 



FOR SANDY LAXD 



the Tyler or Souhegan is desirable. Its 

 persistence, great bearing, good size 

 and flavor are well worthy of commen- 

 dation. Yet the man with well-drained 

 clay loam must, as a rule, beat his rival 

 of the sandy location in black cap 

 growinj, if other conditions are equal. 

 The Tyler is quite profitable on sandy 

 loam, but more so with more clay under 

 it. So are red raspbei-ries for that mat- 

 ter, but the difierence is not so marked. 



SUPERB, HANSELL, CRIMSON BEAUTY. 



Which is the best? The question as 

 to the largest — the Superb. But its 

 berries are apt to come to pieces in the 

 handling. The color is dark, the quality 

 indifierent and productive. The Hansell 

 is very beautiful and firm ; quality 

 better than Superb. Plenty good 

 enough to sell, but requiring further 

 test, as only one small plant was big 

 enough to bear. Crimson Beauty is 

 luxuriant in growth, and, seemingly, so 

 far, very productive, while the berry is 

 very handsome and large, Vjut the flavor 

 is about like Hansell and not so firm. 

 Further testing is required as to earli- 

 ness and comparative superiority on the 

 average of these two kinds. 



Taylor's prolific blackberry 

 is hard to beat, where Lawton and 

 Kittrttinuy freeze down as they do 



