90 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Q. It is evident there are two russets very much ahke and 

 eye is not keen enough, nor my experience long enough to tell 

 them apart. The first of the season one has just the same value 

 as the other; but later there is a russet we -call the Golden 

 Russet that commences to decay while there are others that 

 keep very well. It is important for us fruit growers that have 

 both varieties to know by the description of the tree. I am not 

 able to learn just by the appearance of the fruit. 



A. Mr. Merrill is probably confounding the Poughkeepsie 

 Russet with the Golden Russet of Western New York. 



SMALL FRUITS FOR HOME USE. 

 By L. F. Abbott, Lewiston. 



A paper on a subject of considerable importance was pre- 

 sented Thursday afternoon by L. F. Abbott of the Lewiston 

 Journal, it being the growing of small fruits for family use. The 

 essayist departed somewhat from the usual course followed, and 

 presented the ethical side of growing a supply of the delicious 

 summer fruits for home consumption. The essay much abridged 

 is given below: — 



To talk of the small fruits for home use, is certainly not a new 

 theme. The subject has been presented at almost every angle 

 of observation, until it would seem there were none left to doubt 

 the utility of the summer fruits for family use. Nevertheless, 

 when the secretary of the Pomological Society invited me to 

 present a few thoughts upon the subject, I accepted with the 

 mental reservation that I would deviate slightly from the com- 

 mon course and exploit the theme from a somewhat broader 

 horizon than is usually done, and endeavor at least, to show that 

 there is an ethical side to the subject, that the moral economics 

 of fruit growing for the home is of as much importance as any 

 other. 



It is expected, I presume, that I shall show the utility of the 

 summer fruits for the family, and recommend certain varieties 

 for cultivation for family use in the order of their excellence 

 and season, treating the subject in a general way, leaving the 



