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we liave a great assortment, with wide difference of flavor, time of 

 fruiting, size, color, hardiness, certainty and fullness of bearing. But 

 they agree in this, that, either on account of softness, of sournesa, 

 irregularity, or some other characteristic defect, they are none of them 

 suited to general planting for money. Their place is in the bed of 

 the family garden, or the collection of the amateur. Here is Jucunda^ 

 an excellent berry, but irregular as a bearer — last year good, this 

 year scanty ; the New Pine, fine flavor but soft and must be dead 

 ripe ; the Stringer Seedling, soft, early, bad shape ; Boyden's 30, of 

 splendid size and noble color, but soft, often hollow, ripening in spots ; 

 Barnes' Mammouth, very large, quite hardy, keeps quite well, very 

 prolific ; the Charles Downing, for home use, a splendid berry, big, 

 round, luscious, uniform in size, a good bearer, too soft to go into a 

 crate ; Nisanor, hardy, prolific, curious taste, something like a goose- 

 berry, all of good medium size ; the Great Eastern, very late, just 

 now in bloom. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller. — What of the Ilomeyn % 



Dr. Hexaraer. — The identity of this berry with the Triomph has 

 been much discussed. I think it is a different berry. It grows 

 liigher, fruits better, and grows where the Triomph will not. The 

 flavor is a little sourer and does not pall upon the tongue. 



Eev. Mr. Foster, a gentleman interested, took the stand and spoke 

 briefly to the effect that several cultivators at Milton, on the Hudson, 

 had found a decided dissimilarity. The Komeyn, they say, issolider, 

 and has higher flavor. Mr. Foster further stated that he had received 

 sixty cents per quart all the season through for the Komeyn, while 

 the Triumph only brought forty cents. Another advantage of the 

 Romeyn is that it grows well on sandy land, while the Triumph, as 

 Dr. Hexamer remarked, requires a heavy clay loam. In conclusion 

 Mr. Foster read a letter from John Cadness, a well known fruit 

 grower at Flushing, L. I., who stated that he had grown the Romeyn 

 for two years, that he finds it much more vigorous and hardy than 

 the Triomph, and that it stands the sun much better. 



Dr. J. V. C. Smith. — For my part, Mr. Chairman, I have been 

 delighted with this exhibition, and this admirable discussion of the 

 varieties; it covers the whole ground, and comes from a gentleman 

 fully master of his business, and an expert in small fruit culture. I 

 move the thanks of the Club. This was unanimously carried. 



