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obtain them. In other words they quite generally conclude to please 

 the women folks and have a few berries for their own use. With 

 this in view some of the growers of Maine speak of the different 

 varieties of small fruits best adapted to the State. The culture is 

 now pretty well understood by those who are ready to set out the 

 plants. What kinds shall we set out? is the inquirj', and these sug- 

 gestions are only to answer from the experience of Maine growers 

 this question. 



Mr. Horatio Clark of New Portland, though not a very large 

 grower of strawberries, raises a large number of varieties and 

 raises them very successfully. We have never seen better straw- 

 berry plants growing than those found in his beds. In reply to 

 questions addressed to him he writes that he hasj grown a large 

 number of varieties, but finds that the Bubach No. 5, and Haviland 

 do the best with him. The Crescents dojwell for one or two seasons 

 and go out quick. Havilands will stand more droughts and winter 

 frosts than any variety he has raised. Mr. Clark the present season 

 produced some over thirty bushels. 



Mr. W. H. Allen, gardener at the Maine Insane Hospital, writes : 



Augusta, August 21, 1893. 



We do not grow a very large quantity of small fruits but we have 

 what we call a good quality of each and consider them as profitable 

 as anything in the garden department. For strawbeiries we grow 

 Bubach as Pistillate and May King as Bi- Sexual. They gave us 

 eighty-six bushels on a little over one-half acre and would have had 

 a great many more were it not for the drought. 



Raspbenies, the Turner is our early kind, good and productive. 

 Cuthbert for late and I know of no better. 



In blackberries we consider the Snyder as a good standard berry 

 and grow it exclusively. 



The Currants, our main crop, is the Versailles (or cherry) and 

 White Grape, and we find them both very fine and exceedingly pro- 

 ductive ; we have a few Fay's but the}' are young and have borne 

 but a few this, their first year, but they promise well, and I think 

 we shall plant more. 



We have but few gooseberries of the Downing and Smith's 

 Improved, and (as I am giving my own experience in the other kinds 

 I can say but little of these as yet) what few they have borne were 

 good in s'ze and quality, this being their first. 



W. H ALLEN. 



Mr. B. M. Titcomb of Farmington, has kindly furnished the fol- 

 lowing information in regard to the matter under consideration : 



I am raising the Cuthbert raspberry and the Wilson and Crescent 

 strawberry. Can some one tell me of a better plant to set with the 



