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canning purposes, and is due largely to the great in-rush of 

 southern fruit at that season of the year. Before that set in 

 they used to be one of our main fresh fruits from our native 

 grounds, but now, because of the rush of fruit from the 

 South, flooding all our markets, it has cut o£E a considerable 

 amount of demand for red raspberries. While many families 

 are appreciating them more and more, and are planting them 

 for private uses, the people at large are not doing that to any 

 great extent, and the result is it affects their production at 

 large. For the black raspberry in some markets there seems 

 to be an increased demand, and I think it is more appreciated 

 in the family and homes than it was. I certainly feel from my 

 own observation that it is being used for cooking more, and I 

 think, perhaps, more bushels of it are sold. We have cut 

 down the number of varieties in both the red and black, so 

 that there are only two or three known as standard. The 

 only new red raspberry in this period is the Loudon. It is 

 rather more hardy than the Cuthbert, more brilliant in color, 

 and more productive. 



"In black raspberries we have had the Kansas from the 

 west, and the Cumberland from Pennsylvania. Both are of 

 decided importance, as they are a distinct advance in the vigor 

 of plant, in productiveness, and size of the berry. They are 

 both wonderfully strong growers. 



"Blackberries have been even more affected by the incom- 

 ing of southern fruit, and are less grown than formerly. I 

 believe Brother Butler still grows them largely, but on the 

 whole they are less grown and with less profit than they were 

 ten years ago. The Lucretia dewberry, which is really a 

 blackberry, is being grown somewhat. It is a very early berry 

 of large size and delicious quality. The only new blackberry 

 is the Eldorado, which is a very hardy berry, of delicious 

 quality, and certainly worthy of being planted for family use, 

 but with the general drift away from buying blackberries at 

 the season of the year when we can ripen them in this climate 

 it is a question whether they will be commercially grown to 

 any great extent except by a few growers. 



"I want to endorse all that my friend Garfield said about the 

 quality of fruit that is put upon the market, and about our 



