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PROF. PARROTT: It might have something to do with 

 it. 



A MEMBER: Not necessarily. 



PROF. PARROTT: It may not be responsible for the 

 condition of the plant which the man describes, namely, the 

 enrling of the leaves and the dwarfing of the fruit. Those 

 are all symptoms of raspberry yellows. I am not saying 

 that is the cause. 1)ut I know if I had that plant, I would get 

 information. 



MR. E. 0. BARBER OF FRAMINGHAM: I have no- 

 ticed some growers turn their canes down to cover them for 

 the winter; is that necessary? 



MR. AIKEN: If we had to do that we would not raise 

 raspberries, but still, in the Lebanon District of Colorado 

 one of the largest raspberry sections in the United States, 

 they raise the ^larlboro there almost exclusively and they 

 lay it down and cover it for the winter. We have had 40 

 below zero and the IMarlboro was unharmed. 



A ]ME]MBER : There are certain varieties that have to 

 be laid down, as the Ward, for instance. 



THE CHAIRMAN : This is one of the growers from the 

 Hudson River district; he says that some of them have to 

 be laid down. 



MR. AIKEN : We do not find it commercially practical 

 to raise any varieties that have to be laid down. Do you 

 raise those varieties commercially? 



A IMEIMBER : I do not raise them myself commercially 

 but they are raised very extensively, particularly one known 

 iis: High, and they have to be tacked down. 



THE CHAIRIMAN: They would be very tender when 

 they go in the winter, I suppose? 



A MEMBER: Yes sir. 



MR. AIKEN: This variety mentioned, the High, I un- 

 derstand is identical Avith the variety that one nurseryman 

 K'ives aAvay as premiums and calls it Jumbo. The Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture at Washington found it identical with 

 the High. 



