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at five cents a quart.) Last year they were not profitable because of 

 the drouth, that is for market. The Lucretia dewberry promises to 

 be worthy of culture for home use. The cultivation is simple and 

 what experience I have had with it leads me to believe they will be 

 very productive, and the berries are delicious. For home use I would 

 also grow a few of the upland huckleberries, and the June berry. 

 Both do well for me and almost never miss a crop. 



Every fruit grower ought to keep a few colonies of bees in some 

 movable frame hive. Simplicity I think the best; by studying their 

 hal)its a little he can have all the delicious honey he wants to eat and 

 the bees help materially in fertilizing his fruit. I raised one year 

 a good crop of Crescent Seedling strawberries from a bed of pure 

 plants where there were no other kind in sixty rods, and I gave the 

 bees the credit. As for bees destroying grapes, I do not believe it. 

 I have raised grapes and kept bees for ten years; having as many as 

 150 colonies at a time and have never lost any grapes because of the 

 bees. From ten colonies of bees I have sold 1,000 pounds of honey 

 at fifteen cents, and that beats fruit culture all to pieces. There's 

 thousands in it gentlemen, of you don't believe it try a swarm. But 

 after all for profit, one-half acre in Folter's cabbage and one-half 

 acre in Yellow Danvers onions, will bring in more money than any 

 acre of strawberries, raspberries or blackberries, one year with 

 another and with less labor. 



Dr. Hall — I look upon the Whitney No. 20 as worthless here. 



H. M. Dunlap — 1 would class it as a summer apple. I would 

 strike out Smith's Cider, as it is not hardy with me, and would add 

 the Tyson pear. Bubach's No. 5 and Jessie strawberries are better, 

 I think, than those in his list. 



THE PERENNIAL GARDEN. 

 BY FRANCIS J. HEINL. 



It is surprising what an amount of indifference is shown among 

 lovers of Nature's beauties, in regard to our commoner wayside 

 flowers and our hardier plants. It is generally supposed that to have 

 a home beautified by flowers, etc., that it requires a considerable 

 purse. While it does require considerable funds to have a con- 

 servatory filled with tropical plants, we may have our homes sur- 

 rounded by the most beautiful plants at a small cost and with a little 

 labor. I suppose you think it strange for one who has plants and 

 flowers for sale to speak this way, but I am one of those who think 

 that the more taste we develop among the people for the commoner 

 plants, the greater the demand will be for the higher-priced ones. 



At this time we cannot dwell on the management of a house- 



