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have the opportunity of coming nearer the station yon have 

 the warmest invitation from the Horticultural Department 

 to drop off and visit the station ; and if any of you are there 

 during the ripening season of either tree or small fruit you 

 will have the invitation to test with us if they are ripe, some 

 of the fruits of the many varieties, which are growing on 

 the Station grounds. 



In taking up the subject which is announced for this 

 afternoon, "Small Fruits", I would have preferred to have 

 passed out slips so that each one of you might have in your 

 hand a hundred, more or less, questions connected with small 

 fruits so that at this time we might discuss the thing, or the 

 subject in which you were particularly interested, but I 

 understood from your secretary some time ago that -a papei- 

 was expected, and for this reason I will do my best to put 

 you to sleep during the next few minutes by reading a paper^ 

 and if the atmosphere becomes a little too drowsy during 

 this paper I will request that a window be opened and if 

 there is any danger of the draft blowing upon any of you, 

 I Mall ask that the window be opened behind the speaker as 

 he perhaps is better prepared than was the speaker of the 

 morning session. (Applause). 



SMALL FRUITS. 



Mr. 0. M. Taylor, New York Experiment Station, 

 Geneva, N. Y. 



The subject of small-fruits is t(*u wide and too deep to 

 permit of its consideration in detail at this session. Cover- 

 ing as it does a large number of groups of ])erries each with 

 habits of growth and requirements different from its neigh- 

 I'Or, yet witli certain inherent tendencies in common, we can 

 perhaps well afford to take a somewhat broad and compre- 

 hensive view of the important factors underlying tlie su<.'- 

 cessful ('ulture of the fruits concerned. 



