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New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 231 
Ripe berries were picked from Covill’s Early on June four- 
teenth, two days earlier than from any other variety. 
The latest first ripe berries from any variety was obtained from 
the unnamed seedling received from R. S. Johnson, which was on 
July second. The berries of this variety have a most delicious 
flavor; but the flesh is too soft to be of value. 
The Garretson and Lennig’s White remained in bearing the 
ereatest and the Jucunda the least number of days. 
The largest yield from matted row was obtained from the 
Primo and Manchester. 
The Manchester gave the largest yield of any variety grown in 
hills. | 
The Jumbo averaged the largest berries of any variety grown 
in matted row, and Charles Downing the smallest. 
The Parry averaged the largest berries of any grown in hills, 
the smallest was Daisy Miller. 
The matted rows yielded the greatest quantity of fruit in every 
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There is no doubt but that the matted row system of growing 
strawberries is the most profitable method of culture, especially 
so where the plants are not allowed to grow too thick in the row. 
RASPBERRY. 
Nearly all the varieties of raspberries in the following list were 
reported on ‘last year.* 
This season each variety was grown in hills; four to six canes 
were allowed to grow in each hill; all suckers in the rows were 
treated as weeds and not permitted to grow. The yields of fruit 
as given in the table is that picked from six hills of each variety. 
The dates of first bloom, first ripe berries, first and last pickings 
of berries, the weight of fruit in ounces, average number of 
berries per ounce and number of days each was in bearing, are 
given in the table. 
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* Report for 1887, p. 336. , 




