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SEEDLING FRUITS. 
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SEEDLINGS FROM FEW AND MANY SEEDED FRUITS. 
In the Station report for 1885, p. 229, is noted an experi- 
ment in growing seedling raspberry plants from few and 
many seeded fruits, from which it appears that the plants 
from the few seeded fruits yielded berries of better average 
quality, than those from the many seeded fruits. 
The past season, the same result was noted in respect to: 
the black-cap, or Rubus occidentalis type. Several plants 
of the red raspberry type, &. strigosus, came into bearing 
for the first time, and in those the difference was less. 
marked. I think it doubtful whether the plants from the 
few seeded fruits produced berries of better quality than 
those from the many seeded ones. ; 7 
In current seedlings grown from few, and many seeded 
berries, the plants from the latter were on the average more: 
vigorous in growth, and came into bearing rather earlier 
than those from the former. In the size of the berries, or 
of the bunches, or in the acidity of the fruits, no special 
difference was discernible. 
SEEDLINGS FROM WILD FRUITS. 
A quantity of seedlings has been grown of the dwarf 
Juneberry, Amelanchiar Canadensis, var. oblongifolia, and 
also of the thimble berry, Rubus odorata. The first of 
these gives promise of value as an addition to our hardy 
fruits, as the plants are prolific, and the fruitis of fair qual- 
ity. It is desired to observe the amount of variation in the 
seedlings of both these fruits, and to make the experiment 
of hybridizing the Rubus odorata with the common rasp- 
berry. . 
In growing seedlings from the huckleberry, no success. 
has thus far been attained. The young plants have failed 
to develop under any method yet tried. ‘The immense nat- 
ural plantations of the various species of this fruit, which 
must largely be produced from seed, prove beyond question 
that when the secret of their culture is once learned, there 
should be no trouble in growing the seedlings. Other ex- 
periments are to be made as soon as seed can be procured. 
Several hundreds of seedlings from named varieties of 
the raspberry and gooseberry will come into bearing next 
season, and a large planting of strawberry seedlings from 
excellent named varieties grown in close proximity was 
made the past summer. 
