

472, REpoRT OF THE ACTING HORTICULTURIST OF THE 
the eggs. These punctures weaken the canes, causing them to 
break very easily. The infested canes should be cut out and — 
burned. The canes can often be told by a partial splitting which 
indicates the presence of these eggs. These crickets also injure 
the canes of the blackberry. The raspberry saw-fly, the rasp- 
berry apatela and the raspberry plume-moth all attack the leaves, 
and like all other leaf-eating insects can be subdued by the appli- 
cation of hellebore and water or Paris green. 
THE BLACKBERRY. 
Of the varieties tested on the Station grounds the Agawam and 
the Erie have given the best results, the former giving large 
yields of medium sized fruits, the latter yielding a fair crop of 
extremely large fruits. Their season is about the same, and, in 
order to lengthen out the season, it would be better to plant an 
earlier variety if one can be found that will flourish on the same 
soil. Next to the above we should place the Snyder, which, in 
fact,is more generally grown at present than either of the others. 
The Kittitiny, if hardy and free from rust, would be the perfection 
of blackberries, but only in a few favored localities can it be 
grown. ‘The insect enemies of the blackberry are about the same 
as these of the raspberry, and an extended account of them is not 
necessary. 
CURRANTS. 
Of currants, the standard varieties are Fay’s Prolific, Cherry 
and Prince Albert for reds, and the White Dutch and White 
Grape for whites. 
The Fay’s Prolific is certainly a very fine variety, growing in a 
fine compact bush, bearing heavy crops of extra large bunches of 
very large fruits. On light soils it is far ahead of the Cherry cur- 
rant, but we have seen the Cherry, growing in heavy clay, when, 
but for the difference in the foliage, they would have been pro- 
nounced Fay’s. 
The Prince Albert is an excellent late currant, with distinct dark 
green foliage. The leaves are more pointed than those of any — 
other variety, the fruit stems extra long and the fruit of fair size. 
The fruit ripens about three weeks later than either Fay’s Prolific 
or Cherry currant, lengthening the season about six weeks, as the — 
fruit hangs on the bushes for a long time before becoming unfit 

