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/ield of fruit there is nothing better than 
liquid manure. Applied in August and 
September it will make the plants vigorous 
and productive. Caution is needed in not 
making it too strong. Apply in a weak 
state but often, is the rule. Enormous 
crops of large and handsome fruit have of- 
ten been traced to the liberal use of liquid 
manure in the fall. 
New beds of raspberries and blackberries 
may be made by taking up on a moist and 
rainy day, the young green suckers from 
the old bed, with a large portion of the soil 
adhering to their roots. Thus transplanted 
they will grow on without a check and 
bear a good crop next season. Set two or 
three plants to the hill and after firming 
the soil around them top dress with well- 
rotted manure. Cut down with the hoe as 
weeds, all suckers in bearing patches, not de- 
signed to bear fruit next year and cut out 
the old canes as soon as done bearing. Turn 
all the strength of the roots to the new 
canes. 
Blackcap raspberry plants are easily 
propagated and any one who has a few 
plants of a variety that pleases him, may 
greatly increase their number by layering 
the tips of the young canes and covering 
them with two or three inches of soil. The 
proper time to do this is when the end of 
the cane begins to enlarge and swell, soon 
after the fruiting season. If the soil is rich 
and mellow they will soon root and make 
fine plants for setting next spring, until 
which time they should be left undisturbed. 
Every tip, laterals as well as main canes, 
should be layered and will make a plant. 
Among the older varieties of the strawy- 
berry which still rank with the best, Sharp- 
less has, during the season just closed, ful- 
ly maintained its high reputation. Yield- 
ing a liberal quantity of fruit, remaining in 
bearing a comparatively long time, plants 
vigorous and fruit of fine appearance and 
good quality, this old sort continu es to be a 
very desirable one to plant, either for home 
use or to supply local markets. 
Small FrnilH in Ohio. 
Our season for straw r berries is about over. 
Monmouth has done well and has borne 
very fine, large fruit. Gandy also. The 
Erie Blackberry is showing up well and at 
this writing (July 1st) promises a lot of 
fruit. Bubach No. 5, Haverland, and Eu- 
reka are grand. Haverland leads all in 
productiveness but Monmouth leads it in 
earliness; they are fine berries to go togeth- 
er in sections where they both do well, as 
they resemble each other in fruit and color. 
Jessie has done fairly well but not what I 
had hoped at the time it was in blossom. 
Lida also has done well, very productive. 
Gypsy is fine. Atlantic very productive 
and so is Cohanzick, but the foliage is poor 
and the fruit does not mature here. Mam- 
moth gave us very large fruit, the largest 
of all, but does not ripen evenly. Crystal 
City was ’the earliest and gave some very 
fine, showy fruit; the first tw T o pickings 
they ran small. We marketed Thompson’s 
Early Prolific raspberry June 24th, which 
was the first picking, though some were 
ripe on the 19th. We have a very heavy 
picking to-day. No blacks yet picked, but 
Doolittle will be ready to-morrow. Carman 
raspberry shows a large crop of fruit this 
year but is not quite so early as Doolittle 
here. — M. T. Thompson, Cuyahoga Co., O. 
The Gandy Strawberry. 
When J.T. Lovett gave the above strawber- 
ry high praise and pronounced it the best late 
variety he did not overrate its good quali- 
ities. With me it was simply grand; in fact 
it is not over yet as I can find nice berries 
still, this 6th of July. 
Without any special care we filled quart 
boxes with twenty berries, and with their 
bright orange faces they are a picture to 
look at. When our Gandy s were sent to 
market, they created quite a stir, and many 
letters come to me asking what that large, 
late, bright-colored berry is, and inquiring 
where plants may be had, etc. A number 
of new strawberries were sent to me to test, 
and from what I have seen I came to the 
conclusion that any one raising seedlings of 
this fruit need not bring out any ordinary 
berry if they expect to have a run for it. I 
will name a few: Eureka, Ohio Centurion, 
Gem, Mrs. Cleveland, Townsend No. 3 and 
No. 7, Shuell’s Early, Stayman’s No. 1, and 
a host of others. 
What I am after is a berry that is equal 
to Minnesota (Hart’s) or Cumberland in oth- 
er respects, and equal to Ladies Pine in qual- 
ity. Then I am ready to sit down and be 
content. Such a strawberry is not in exis- 
tance, to my knowledge.— Samuel Miller. 
Downer’s Prolific Strawberry. 
The item in the July number that I regard 
the Downer’s Prolific still the best straw- 
berry for home use, needs some qualifying. 
The reporters at the Chicago ( Convention 
left out the leading idea of the statement 
made which was that I regarded the Down- 
er the best for use in fertilizing the Cres- 
cent where the crop was for home use. 
Again, this remark was intended to apply 
to our black drift soils of the West, where 
so many of the fine new varieties fail, on ac- 
count of leaf rust. 
During the trying summers of the past 
three yearsthree of Downer’s seedlings have 
remained perfect, viz: Downer’s Prolific, 
Charles Downing, and Kentucky. Of all 
the many other sorts on the ground — 
new and old — only the Bubach, Great Pa- 
cific, and Crescent, have held perfect foliage. 
Though in ordinary years many other 
sorts do well. On lighter colored loess or 
ridge soils the leaf troubles are not so gen- 
eral. — J. L. Budd. 
Keep the young canes of raspberries and 
blackberries that are to bear next season, 
pinched back, both main canes and laterals. 
It is no time for argument when hope is gone and vig- 
or spent, and life is all affliction; 
For talk, though rich in common sense, and warm 
with eager vehemence, cannot compare with evi- 
dence in winning strong conviction. 
That just suits: we will not talk— we will offer evi- 
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