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well tested and is one of the most satisfactorj' of the English type, 

 far superior in my estimation to the Industry. 



Ques. Would you not add the Reine Claude to the list of plums? 



Ans. It is one of the very best. It is a short lived tree and 

 just a little inclined to be tender, but a very satisfactory plum. 



Mr. NoRRis — I had those varieties of plums mentioned, the 

 Lombard, McLaughlin, Bradshaw, etc., and supposed they were 

 tough enough to stand the winter, so I let them stand up, but every 

 one of them killed back to the stump. I find if I put them down, 

 as I do the Japanese plums, they do just the same, — come up all 

 right in the spring. 



Prof. MuNSON — Most of the farmers in this vicinity would be 

 situated so that they could grow the trees without laying them 

 down. But they would not be able to grow the Japanese without 

 laying them down where they would be able to grow the domestic 

 trees. The Japanese sorts are not sufficiently tried so that we can 

 depend upon them and you have got to give them a great deal 

 more care than you do these hardy, vigorous, well tried sorts. 



Mr. Knowlton — I wish to mention a variety of blackberries 

 which the speaker omitted and which is grown in a large part of 

 the State more successfully than any other ; I refer to the Snyder. 



In quali y it may not be quite as good as the one the gentleman 

 speaks of, but it comes pretty near being thoroughly hard}'. I 

 have had my bushes growing twelve or thirteen years, and with the 

 exception of one year I have always had as many blackberries as 

 we wanted and could expect from those bushes. In other words 

 they have been so thoroughly hardy that without the slightest pro- 

 tection they have borne ten out of twelve years. I do not say that 

 to say anything against burying the canes in the winter if any one 

 wishes ; but I have a feeling that here in most parts of Maine it is 

 not necessary to do this with the Snyder as a rule. The Snyder 

 berry is one of the best in quality, and the ease and certainty with 

 which we can raise it makes it really one of the best. 



Mr. NoRRis — I had a row of Snyders which I let stand up and 

 another row which I turned down. From the row which I turned 

 down I got a wonderful crop, but from the other row not a berry. 



