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Blackberry. Eldorado, Agawam, Early Harvest, Kittatinny. 

 Raspberry. Red, Cuthbert, Herbert, Eaton, Loudon. 



Purple, Columbus, Schaffer. 



Black, Gregg, Plum Farmer. 



White, Yellow Queen. 



In closing, let me leave these thoughts with you, that New 

 England has all the essential points necessary to grow good fruit. 

 The only thing we need to have is faith and perseverance; that we 

 can grow all the fruit we need in our gardens, which will be fresher 

 and better than that we buy; that we can have lots of pleasure 

 growing it, and if we care to, can make fruit growing a profitable 

 means of livelihood, keeping us in the free open air and tending 

 toward a saner, more healthy, and more rational way of living. 



Now, if we may have the lights turned out. 



I am going to run through these pictures rather hurriedly, as 

 they cover quite a bit of ground. I am not necessarily going into 

 cultural directions of the particular subjects I am going to touch 

 on; but in order to open up the discussion later on I shall try to 

 answer the question myself on the small fruits, and the other men 

 who are here will take up the particular subject that has been 

 assigned to them. 



In the small fruits, the strawberry is the most important. It 

 has been grown more in market quantities throughout the country 

 than any other particular fruit. Here are a few of the types of 

 our strawberries which we grow in this vicinity. 



Beginning on the left hand corner and taking them in their 

 order is the Brandywine; the next is the Senator Dunlap; the 

 next the Meade; the next Parsons Beauty; the next, if I remember 

 rightly, is the Chesapeake. 



In growing strawberries in our vicinity, and particularly for the 

 market or home garden use, I believe the hill system is far preferable 

 to the matted row. In this system, that is where they are grown 

 in wide beds, four plats across the bed, we get a much better natural 

 condition than we do where the hills are isolated too much. The 

 great trouble has been, in having the hills isolated, the frost kills 

 them out. In this system, with four plants across the bed, the 

 plats protect themselves better and come out much better in the 

 spring. 



