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at an earlier date than any red sort thus far 

 tested, with the possible exception of High- 

 land Hardy. If the bushes art closely pruned 

 in the spring, the fruit is suHiciently firm for 

 near market. It gives greater profit than 

 any other red variety in the station grounds. 



Mr. Charles Mills, of the same 

 State, says : — 



My main crop was Tyler and Gregg for 

 black, Cuthbert and Marlboro for red. The 

 Tyler gives a large picking on the start and 

 keeps good size throughout. The Gregg 

 lengthens out the season, following close 

 after the Tyler, with its large berries which 

 sell at sight. It is not a large yielder nor 

 quite firm enough to ship well. Some of its 

 seedlings will soon take its place. 



The Marlboro is doing better than at first. 

 It produced a good crop early, and its good 

 looks sell it, but quality or taste is not there, 

 but it sells — that's the point. Cuthbert is 

 our best red yet. Thompson may take the 

 place of the Marlboro. I hope to test it ne.\t 

 year. The disease which I have named 

 black blight in black raspberries has done 

 some damage. It, some seasons, kills many 

 of the bushes. I have never seen a remedy 

 or a cause for it yet. I find, if let stand, it 

 completely kills the bush, but if cut out, 

 leaving only the roots, they will sprout, grow 

 up again with but one year lost. I prefer to 

 set both red and black raspberries in the 

 fall. I set red raspberries with good results 

 in damp weather, any time from March to 

 November. In setting green wood cut back 

 well. Fall-set plants I give a forkful of 

 manure on the plant in the fall, or soon as 

 the ground freezes, then in the spring remove 

 the manure and go over the piece often and 

 see that every plant is aliva. By adopting 

 this plan, I am satisfied I double my first 

 crop, over spring setting. It is impossible 

 in the spring to set black raspberry plants 

 without breaking off many of the sprouts. 

 Set your plants in the fall and then you 

 know what plants you have to sell to the 

 earliest spring planters, 



Mr. E. J. Brownell, recapitulating 

 his year's experience in the Orniii^c 

 County Fanner, says: — 



In black caps I have yet to find a better 

 sort, all things considered, than the Ohio. 

 As I have before said, I should not feel it 

 a great deprivation if I were obliged to con- 

 fine myself to this one sort alone. Ripening 

 as it does within a few days of the earlier 

 sorts, it will, if properly and thoroughly fer- 

 tilized with all the manure needed to bring 

 it to its best, continue to bear nearly as late 

 as any of those kinds especially recommend- 

 ed for lateness. 



In fact, under favorable conditions, it is a 



very marvel of productiveness, and I have 

 never seen any other raspberry that for 

 healthfulness or vigor or plant-bearing quali- 

 ties and everything considered, would equal 

 it. 



The Souhegan (or Tyler, which I believe 

 to be identically the same, having both sorts 

 from the first disseminators of each), which 

 was so loudly vaunted as superior in hardi- 

 ness and vigor of plants, and which would 

 perhaps compare well in this respect with 

 most of the older kinds, is certainly lacking 

 in both vigor and productiveness as com- 

 pared with the Ohio, while in size of fruit 

 especially, unless the land is unusually rich, 

 it is quite inferior. 



There is but one point, it seems to me, in 

 which there is any possible advantage in the 

 planting of these varieties, that is, they will 

 begin to ripen a very few days earlier than 

 the Ohio, and still even then I have found 

 that our first full picking is composed very 

 nearly as largely of the latter as of those so- 

 called earlier sorts. 



The Gregg is later than the Ohio, but with 

 us here it lacks in hardiness, and unless the 

 season is unusually fa\orable as regards ex- 

 tremes of cold, it is unreliable. Then, too, 

 it ha? a way of a portion of the bushes which 

 iii spring seem to start out with vigor and 

 promise well for a fruit crop, drying up and 

 dying off after the berries are formed and 

 even half grown. Whether this is owing to 

 impaired vitality on account of lack of hardi- 

 ness in the plants, or some other cause, I am 

 unable to say, but one thing I am sure, that 

 it is a failing from which Ohio is largely ex- 

 empt. 



The Nemeha, for which a claim of superior 

 hardiness as a late sort is made, has not with 

 me sustained that claim. If it is in any way 

 superior to Gregg I have not been able to 

 prove it on my grounds, and I would not 

 affirm that it is not identical with that 

 sort. 



I had my plants of Nemeha directly from 

 the originator, so I suppose them to be true 

 to name, but they certainly are not particu- 

 larly more hardy here than the Gregg, nor 

 better in any way, so far as I can judge. 



In red raspberries, Cuthbert. this year, for 

 the first time since I planted it, now seven 

 years, gave a fair yield on my grounds as 

 compared with other sorts of its class. 

 Whether it is due to some peculiarity of the 

 soil, or from some other cause, it has always 

 lacked here in productiveness. 



Prof. Weber, of the Ohio E.xperi- 

 ment Station, has been subjecting 

 to chemical analysis the following 

 varieties, viz.: Shatter, Ohio, Hil- 

 born, Ada and Gregg, and finds that 

 certain varieties are much better 



