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garding choke cherries ; one or two bites are sufficient if they are that 

 kind. I know the sand cherries are eaten frequently, and relished, 

 too. 



President — Perhaps appetite has something to do in this case? 



Dunlap — Yes ; it makes quite a difference if one has been eating 

 salt pork and such things. 



Webber — I think the fruit can be developed. I have no criti- 

 cism, yet there is room for improvement. 



Masters — I have tried the sand cherry, but think it is no good. 

 I kept my trees ten years and they bloomed well, but that is about all 

 you could say for them. There would be fifty cherries, where there 

 should have been that many bushels. The fruit is not good to eat ; it 

 is a little like "Dead Sea fruit " — pleasant to look at, but bitter to the 

 taste. 



Williams — I notice the report is adverse to red raspberries; which 

 varieties ? The Thwack with me is hardy. 



Barnard — I have grown Turner seventeen years on the same land 

 and it never winter killed. The Cuthbert and Reliance are no good 

 with me. They are not so strong and not so hardy as the Turner. I 

 want to ask has any one here fruited the Russian apricot? I think 

 it has about received its quietus, as I can hear of no one who has 

 fruited it. 



Hadkinson — In Cass county I have eaten the fruit, and I con- 

 sider it very fine indeed. 



Jenkins — The Russian apricot is grown in Valley county; but 

 red raspberries do no good there at all. 



Stephens — I never enthuse on the apricot subject; pears are my 

 hobby. The results with apricots are not the most gratifying, yet I 

 believe they will be a success if we only know how to prevent " jack 

 frost " from nipping the early bloom. 



