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ppring he nips the branches, as it will not clo to let them bear all 

 they ■would. 



Eecurring to the Kittatinny, William Parry, asked if that berry 

 was one week earlier than Lawton, and held out longer, as was 

 stated, if there wag a time when we could get a good market pick- 

 ing. Said in picking it did not differ materially from the Lawton 

 or New Rochelle. 



Mr. Williams responded affirm tively. 



Information was now called for concerning the Wilson's early, 

 another new blackberry, which some present were cultivating 

 largely. 



Mr. Parry responded, that it was hardy and earl}'. True the 

 tips winter-killed a little in Burlington county, N. J., with the 

 mercary 16° below zero. Had seen the Wilson bear double the 

 crop of the Lawton along side. 



Mr. Williams said it was an advantage for the tips to kill back, 

 people were so adverse to clip them — nature comes in a:;d does 

 the work instead. 



Mr. J. S. Collins, on being called out upon the Wilson's Early, 

 said it Avas sweeter than the Lawton, though not as high flavored 

 as the Kittatinny. Its size compares fiivorably with others. It 

 was first found among the Jersey pines and set in a garden at 

 Medford, where it gave a good crop of sweet fruit, but was little 

 thought of for 10 or 15 years, and only wdthiu the past few years 

 has it claimed much attention. It is safe to say it is a week earlier 

 than Lawton, and ripens its fruit all at once, the right being over 

 in two weeks from the first picking. 



Mr. Williams said the Wilsons were early, productive and 

 ripens their fruit in a body, which, for market purposes, makes 

 them valuable. 



Mr, S. B. Parsons asks about the cut-leaved blackberry, a late 

 sort, ripening with peaches, which he considers valuable, and 

 withal quite ornamental when trained as a hedge or upon poles. 

 It is an enormous bearer, hardy, very large and sweet, but needs 

 spurring. It is a French sort — Rubus laciniatus. 



Dr. Warder has only seen it grown for ornament. 



Mr. Quinn — It has the disadvantage of ripening at a period 

 when people are tired of blackberries. 



Mr. Parry — It will be confined to gardens of amateurs — a neigh- 

 bor of his went into it largely, and finully offered a man 1,000 



