Ob 



MR. AIKEN : No. You Monld think it would, but rasp- 

 berries often make a second growth, and you will find that 

 second growth just as well off the next spring as the first 

 growth. 



MR. DAVENPORT : I know that in most publications, 

 or the older publications, practically all of them state that 

 canes that grow late in the fall are usually the ones that 

 Avinter kill, but I notice in our own experience that young 

 shoots coming up in the fall are usually the ones that go 

 through. We have had winter killings, but it Avas on very 

 dry land, and at the same time I considered that air drainage 

 was good because they were on an elevation, yet two seasons 

 out of seven we got some winter killing, principally on the 

 Cuthbert and Herbert and Marlboro, and there were also 

 some London. 



MR. WHEELER : I think in that question a good deal 

 depends on the location, 



MR. AIKEN: Yes, in a country where they have plenty 

 (.f snow and possibl}' with the late fall growing there would 

 I'Ot be quite so much danger as down here. Last spring a 

 great many of the raspberries in this section were killed in 

 March, Avhen it was very dry and cold, and I think the dry 

 ground conditions had as much to do with it as anything 

 else. Also the very cold nights, which evaporated the moist- 

 ure more rapidly than the cane could make it. I think there 

 is danger in a climate where there is no snow, where the 

 vines grow too late in the fall. i\Ir. Davenport has said that 

 the new shoots that start up in the fall near the groun<l go 

 through. I think they go through from the fact that they 

 r;re covered with snow or some other material, rather than 

 that they grow late in the fall. 



MR. KINNEY: It seems to me that this audience has no 

 right to consider the Marlboro, which has been discarded 

 here long ago. It is not in the same class at all with the 

 Cuthbert and Herbert. 



MR. JENKS: I think that Mr. Kinney's point is just 

 rjght for our ^Massachusetts conditions. I think the ]\[arl- 



