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MR. GRATTAN: ]\rost of us want to grow something 

 that is successful commercially, and yet some of us like 

 to grow fruit that is especially fine, regardless of whether 

 we can sell it or not, and I have a few berry bushes of the 

 eld fragrant orange variety, almost extinct, and I find that 

 it is absolutely necessary to lay it down to prevent freezing, 

 in order to get it through the winter. 



MH. AIKEN: I think that all the European varieties 

 are not considered exactly hardy. I do not think the High 

 is an European variety. I think that is an American varie- 

 1y. AVe sot a dozen plants last spring, and they may be dead 

 next spring. 



THE CHAIRMAN: There have been a few questions 

 psked by those not present, which I will read. "When 

 should the old canes be cut out of the raspberry field?" 



]MR. AIKEN : I said in my paper that we cut them out 

 in the fall. This is not exactly necessary, but we cut them 

 out then because we have more time than we do in the 

 spring. 



A ]\[EMBER : Do you raise them on sticks or Mires ? 



i\IR, AIKEN : We raise mostly iMarlboro iliat do not 

 liCed tying up. Cuthberts — we should have all of them on 

 wires. We set up a post in the middle of the row, set these 

 posts two rods apart and put on a cross arm like a telephone 

 cross arm and run two wires with the canes coming up 

 between the two wires. The bearing canes can be tied to 

 one wire and the young canes to the other wire, or the 

 bearing canes can be tied to both wires on both sides and 

 the young canes allowed to come up through the middle. 



THE CHAIR]\IAN: I think IMr. Palmer might give us 

 a word as to how they grow them in the Hudson River 

 Valley. I have been at his place and would be glad to have 

 a word along that line. 



]MR. PAL^MER : We grow them on stacks largely, and 

 my raspberry bushes are about 6 feet square and they are 

 cultivated both ways. This is not the ordinary practise and 

 J do not know that I would recommend it. However, we 



