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worth while for the commercial grower to consider it for a 

 moment. And yet I was almost born and raised in a small 

 fruit garden, where the Black Caps revelled. That was in 

 the days of the old variety, Ohio. I have heard my grand- 

 mother tell of the bringing of the plants of this variety back 

 from the State af Ohio, and planting them in our Massachu- 

 setts fruit garden. I always feel sorry that, at least in our 

 private gardens and home collections, more attention has not 

 l)een given to growing this delightful fruit. Perhaps we 

 ought to treat with our Purple Cane raspberry about as 

 lightly as with the Black Caps, and yet I see in the Purple 

 Cane a little more of promise to the commercial grower, ana 

 I believe the time will come when we will be growing the 

 I'urple Canes extensively, particularly as valuable varieties 

 as the Columbian. I believe that for one who is undertaking 

 to do anything in connection with canning work or with the 

 fruit juice trade, there is much in this class of berry that is 

 of value to him. I was very much interested last summer at 

 the Geneva Station to see what valuable work they are doing 

 in the way of breeding up races of these Purple Canes. When 

 you recall that their best features, which is their tremendous 

 yielding power and short fruiting season or, in other words, 

 the opportunity of harvesting the crop in so short a time, and 

 lor that reason they should offer nuich appeal to us, I am 

 sure. But with this introduction I think we may excuse all 

 the raspberries except the reds and confine our -attention to 

 those. 



Now. in the limited time that I have with you I wish to 

 divide my talk into two parts. I wish first to tell you what 

 i recognize as some of the essentials in the growing of the 

 red raspberry, and then for a few minutes more I would like 

 to discuss the growing by seasons, trying to touch on a few 

 points which may be overlooked in considering the essentials. 

 At the risk of making some-thing of a catalogue, I am going 

 to describe the essentials something as follows: 



First, good stock; 



Second, the control of diseases and insects; 



