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R. M. KELLOGG'S GREAT CROPS ON 
are largely cultivated on the lake shore, 
but are tender and would require pro- 
tection away from the lake. 
For general cultivation we have never 
found any variety that would equal the 
Western Triumph, 
and this has been for fourteen years 
our main reliance. Indeed, we have 
never failed to get a profitable crop. It 
is the hardiest of any variety with which 
I am acquainted and stands the Mich- 
igan winters like a scrub oak. Its fruit 
is large and sweet and free from the 
hard core found in so many varieties. I 
have never seen a bush aflected with 
rust or any disease. It ripens very 
■early, long before wild berries are on the 
market, 
KlTTATlNNY 
rusts and is tender as is also the Law- 
ton and some others of its class. I have 
set them aside. 
Snyder 
is too small. Its great forte has always 
been its hardiness, but I have found it 
so inferior to the Triumph that, as a 
field berry, I have discarded it. 
The Erie. 
I am not yet ready to e.xpress an opin- 
ion as to its value. It is certainly very 
promising. I must first fruit it from 
select canes and eliminate its weak 
points, if it has any. 
DEWBKRKIES. 
The Luc.retia is far ahead of any other 
variety with which we are acquainted. It 
is a trailing blackberry of immense size, 
and when ijroperly pruned is enormously 
productive and of excellent quality. It 
does not require land rich in nitrogen, but 
plenty of potash and phosphoric acid in 
the way of wood ashes will greatly benefit 
it. It should be pruned to three or four 
WE.STERN Triumph. 
canes and cut back to two or three feet, and if 
foliage becomes too rank it should be short- 
ened in. 
The adverse criticism of this plant always 
comes from those who have given it no care. 
Proper cultivation and pruning are as essential 
with this as in the case of raspberries and black- 
berries, and the work is as easily done. The 
fruit must be allowed to become fully ripe. 
Its good qualities may be summed up as fol- 
lows: Earliness, productiveness, good quality 
and ease of affording winter protection if 
planted in an exposed place. Every family 
should have this in their collection. It is as 
hardy as Lawton blackberry and passes most 
