No. 4.] SMALL FRUITS AND BERRIES. Ill 



best on your farm. We cau only give you the names of those 

 varieties which have succeeded in Massachusetts, and it will 

 be necessary for the beginner to try out some of these until 

 he finds those best suited to his conditions : — 



Strawberry. 

 Marshall, Senator Dunlai), Barrymore, early. 

 Sample, Minute Man, Downing's Bride, Glen Mary and 



Wooseter, midseason. 

 Golden Gate, Stevens Late Champion, Heritage and Bran- 



dywine, late. 



During the past few years there has been developed a new 

 type of strawberry known as the overbearing strawberries. 

 These berries have certainly proved their worth and are true 

 overbearers. Most of them begin to fruit about the 1st of 

 August and continue to bear until late in October, and while 

 they may not become commercially profitable, still they are 

 valuable for the home garden and to some extent commer- 

 cially. The best varieties are Pan American, Superb, Pro- 

 ductive and St. Louis. 



Desirable Varieties. 



Ctirranis. — l^'ay, Perfection, Wilder and White Imperial. 



Gooseberry. — Downing, Columbus, Chautauqua and In- 

 dustry. 



Baspberry. — Cuthbert and Herbert (red); Yellow Queen 

 (white) ; Plum Farmer, Kansas and Cumberland (black). 



Blackberry. — Eldorado, Snyder, Agawam and Kittitiny. 



In closing I would like to call your attention to the still 

 greater possibilities of improving these small fruits and de- 

 veloping new ones. When you consider that the strawberry 

 in this country is scarcely sixty years old, and when you, 

 who can, recall the berries of fifty or even forty years ago 

 and compare them with those of the present day, it is hardly 

 possible to credit the great change. Yet the strawberry of 

 the future will be as superior to that of the present as is 

 the strawberry of to-day superior to that of fifty years ago. 

 Very few of our hybridizers are working on this important 

 group of small fruits. Xearly all of our berries are chance 



