24 "WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1881. 



My best Red Raspberries until I had the Cuthbert, were the 

 Hudson River Antwerp, and Northumberland Fillbasket. What 

 money and credit I have received from the cultivation of this 

 noble raspberry, I owe largely to the advice, precept, and 

 example of our worthy Secretary, who has grown immense crops 

 of it, on his small garden plot. And I have grown the Northum- 

 berland at the rate of 250 bushels to the acre, and sold them by 

 the busliel, at 45 cents a quart, or $14.40 a bushel, or at the rate 

 of $3600 per acre ; and it was seasons when strawberries averaged 

 but 20 cents a quart; but alas! just as we had got the trade of 

 growing them well learned, and a good plantation established, 

 there came an insect of some kind — and though we have studied 

 and watched faithfully for two years, we know him only by his 

 works, now — that lays from ten to twelve eggs in the young 

 canes, in the space of an inch in length of the canes, and from 

 twelve to twenty four inches from the ground ; the canes show 

 no disease ; continuing to grow thrifty till Fall, but many of them 

 break where they were stung, when we come to lay them down, 

 and many more when we come to take them up in the Spring ; 

 and the destruction of the despoiler has been complete, and the 

 last season's work has gone to tlie bugs. I have felt compelled 

 to lay by on my former laurels, for the present, and watch and 

 pray; not forgetting to work all the time to try and ferret out 

 the enemy. I have a few samples of canes on exhibition 

 to-day. 



I have in previous years raised crops of even Brinkle's 

 Orange — the cream of the raspberries — that satisfied me ; and 

 remove the cane destroyer, and give the canes of tiie above 

 three a protection of earth in the Fall — see E. P. Roe's " Success 

 with Small Fruits," for cuts, &c. — and the person who would 

 not be satisfied with the crop of fruit would be a hopeless 

 sinner. 



The Cuthbert seems to be too tough for this raspberry satan, 

 as yet, and T hope it may so continue, for it is a raspberry good 

 enough to satisfy the most fastidious amateur, and hardy enough 

 to stand the rough treatment of the most careless farmer, and 

 satisfy his ambition for quantity with its bountiful crops of 

 fruit. 



The new Black Cap, the Gray, pleased me more than any 

 other of my new small fruit friends last season ; being like the 

 Cuthbert, very large, extremely productive, and good enough for 

 anybody. 



To produce the l)est results, raspberries should be set three 

 feet by live, heavily manured and mulched in Summer, and the 

 canes tied to wires when fruiting. 



