FRIDAY, MORNING SESSION 10 O'CLOCK 



Vice President Margeson in the Chair 



THE CHAIRiMAN : We will call on :\Ir. George D. 

 Aiken, Vice-President from Vermont for New England Fruit 

 >Show, who will address us on Raspberry Culture. ]\Ir. 

 Aiken is a large commercial grower of small fruits and his 

 talk will be very interesting. 



RASPBERRY CULTURE 



Mr. Geo. D, Aiken, Putney, Vt., Vice President for Vermont 

 of the New England Fruit Show 



Mr. President. Members of the Massachusetts Fruit 

 Growers' Association, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



The subject on which I am to talk is a peculiar one, for 

 the reason that Avhile I can make almost any statement re- 

 garding raspberry culture and find some one to agree with 

 me I expect it is impossible to make any statement but wdiat 

 some one will disagree. There has been so little experi- 

 mental work done and so few authoritative works written 

 regarding raspberries, and the results of what investigations 

 have been carried on have been so much at variance, that 

 there seems to ])e nothing definite to go by except one's own 

 experience. 



I shall tell you, today, some things I have learned from 

 experience in growing raspberries. However, don't take it 

 for granted that what I may say will always hold good in 

 your case. There are as many opinions as to hoAV raspber- 

 ries sliould be grown as there are growers. Some growers 



