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SMALL FRUITS TESTED IN MICHIGAN. 



R. T. T. LYON, who has charge of the sub-station of the Michigan 

 Agricultural College Experiment Station, reports his experience in 

 a recent bulletin. In his opinion, the following Strawberries are best 

 suited for the family garden, provided that quality is the chief consideration: 

 Alpha for early, May King, Belmont and Barry for medium, and Mount 

 Vernon to close the season. For market, he would grow Crescent or 

 Haverland with Miner as a fertilizer, Bubach, No. 5, with Logan to- 

 fertilize it, and Mount Vernon to close the season. 



Of the Haverland, he says this is one of very recent varieties which is 

 attracting much attention. It has shown itself at least fully as produc- 

 tive as the Crescent, larger size and better flavor. The plant also is 

 healthy and vigorous. It is a pistillate. 



Of the Raspberries, Mr. Lyon commends for the family garden the 

 Turner, Herstine, Golden Queen and Cuthbert; and of the black caps, 

 Souhegan, Hilborn and Nemaha, with Shaffer for canning. For market he 

 might, perhaps, substitute the Gregg for the Hilborn. 



THE LADY RUSK. 



^^/E have nothing to say concerning this new introduction of William 

 Stahl's, except what he himself says of it, as it has not yet been 

 tested by any of the Experiment Stations, but as plants have been 

 freely distributed among them, we shall '^^^n, 



receive their unbiased judgment after this 

 summer's fruit season. 



The introducer claims for the Lady 

 Rusk the following important qualities : 

 (i) vigor of growth, (2) power of with- 

 standing drouth, (3) freedom from rust, (4) 

 earliness, several days ahead of Crescent, 

 (5) large size, (6) firmness, (7) productive, 

 ness, equal to Crescent. 



Mr. Stahl says he now controls the 

 largest acreage of strawberries of any man 



in the United States, and thinks he is pic. 26.-the ladv rusk. 



qualified to judge of the kind that will be most profitable to growers. Such 

 a berry he believes he has found in the Lady Rusk, a cut of which accom- 

 panies this article. 



