10 



To prevent this injury and to ensure a crop every year the canes 

 must be bent over and covered with soil. One or two plantations 

 where tlie soil was heavily mulched report but little injury, while 

 several others similarly treated were as seriously injured as where not 

 mulched at all. The labor of covering is small, and if the work is 

 properly done certain protection is secured. 



The following table gives the comparative results of the trial of the 

 difflerent varieties during the past season. 



RED RASPBERRIES. 



In this table 1 indicates the greatest perfection of quality, 

 freedom from disease. 



etc., and greatest 



Date of Date of 

 Blooming Ripening 



Braiiclywine, 



Crimson Beauty, 



Cuthbert, ' 



Golden Queen, 



Hansel, ■ 



Marlboro, 



Rancocas, 



Superb, 



Thompson's Early Prolific 



Thompson's Pride, 



Victor, 



White Mountain, 



iJune 10 

 .June 9 

 June 7 

 June 14 

 June 7 

 June 8 

 June 6 

 June 10 

 June 7 

 June 9 



July 5 

 July 1 

 July 8 

 July 12 

 June 27 

 Julys 

 July 4 

 July 6 

 July 1 

 June 27 



June 15 [July 5 

 June 15 July 14 



No new varieties have thus lar been found superior to the old 

 standard sorts. Those to be recommended for planting in Massa- 

 chusetts are as follows : Marlboro, Hansel and Cuthbert. Thomp- 

 son's Early Prolific proves to be early and of good quality, but we 

 were unable to test its productiveness, on account of the injury of 

 the canes bv the winter. 



