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them when they were still hard. These canned cherries are meaty and most
delicious. We never tasted any better. It is only a pity that this
seedling cherry is not quite hardy.

As most everywhere in the state, our grapes were a complete failure. The
early growth with its good showing of fruit having been frozen in May,
it was well toward the end of June when the vines had recovered from the
shock and were able to grow vigorously again. There were a few grapes on
some of the vines, but they never got ripe. The Alpha showed the most
fruit, and a few bunches were just about getting ripe when the frost
spoiled them. This May freeze was more severe than we thought it was.
The wood of the old vines was not injured, but the one year old wood of
young plants was killed to the ground. The lesson we learned from this
is very important. It may be stated that vines full of sap and in
growing condition can endure very little cold, but when the wood is ripe
and dormant the vines will seldom be injured by sub-zero weather. This
injury to vines from frost might have been averted at least in part by
precautionary measures. In other countries people start smoldering
fires, making much smoke in the vineyard so that the whole is covered
with a cloud of smoke. This raises the temperature a few degrees and
keeps the frost out. Such preventive means might have been used here
very well to save the grapes, but it was not done.

Our currants were not very good; they ripened unevenly and showed that
they, too, were touched by frost. A few bushes were also attacked by the
currant worm.

We never cultivated any raspberries before. But last year we planted
Raspberry No. 8, sent to us from the Fruit-Breeding Farm. This sort is a
very vigorous grower; some canes grew over six feet high. It fruited
this year; it is very prolific; the fruit is very large and of good
quality. It would be quite satisfactory if it were a little hardier.
Not being protected more than half of the plants were lost last winter.

But the everbearing strawberry No. 1017 received from the Fruit-Breeding
Farm is a complete success. They were properly planted and well taken
care of. All flowers were removed up to July 10th and then left alone.
In early August the first berries were picked, and we kept right on
picking till the frost killed the fruit stalks. The growing of this
strawberry will be continued. A new bed will be planted next spring with
young plants that were not