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to three weeks earlier thau Hales. He has settled down to the firm conclusion 

 that there is not three clays' difTorence in time of ripening the following 

 varieties, viz.: Amsden, Alexander, Wilder, Miisser, Bowers's Early, Baker's 

 Early, Alpha, Gov. Garland, Sherfey's Early, Nectar, Early Canada, Waterloo, 

 Downing, Saunders, Cumberland, Honeywell, Climax, Briggs's May, and a 

 seedling of his own, known as No. 4. All the above named varieties are just 

 over, while Early Beatrice, Louisa, and Early Kivers are just coming in. He 

 picked the first ripe peaches about the 2'Zd of July, while two years ago the 

 first were ripe about the 26th of June. Early Surprise is just coloring, and 

 will ripen about with Hales. Early Rose and Early Lydia quite green. Elater's 

 St. John, said to be the earliest yellow peach, will ripen, he thinks, with Troth. 



SUCCESS WITH SMALL FKUITS. 



E. P. Roe says that the secret of success in small fruit culture is found in two 

 words, stimulation, restriction. By stimulation he means a thoroughly pulver- 

 ized and enriched soil. This is especially essential to the strawberry, the foreign 

 raspberry, and all the currants. A rampant growing raspberry like the Outh- 

 bert or Turner, and our vigorous blackberries, do not require stimulation, but 

 they do restriction. By restriction is meant the development of fruit rather 

 than wood or vines. Set out a strawberry plant in very deep, rich, moist soil, 

 and its first tendency is to follow the great law of nature, and propagate itself, 

 but to the degree that it makes plants it cannot make fruit. Cut off every run- 

 ner and enormous fruit buds are developed. The sap is dammed np as a miller 

 restricts a stream, and the result is strawberries that are double in size and 

 quantity. This is equally true of raspberries. Currant bushes crowded with 

 wood bear little fruit. 



TRANSPLANTING RASPBERRIES. 



P. E. Bucke, an authority upon fruit matters at Ottawa, Canada, says: 

 A couple of years ago the transplantation of raspberries was recommended in 

 August, when the young plants were in full leaf. This paragraph was copied 

 into a large number of papers, and was eventually sent me by a friend all the 

 way from California. Further experiments this year in the direction of early 

 planting revealed the fact that July is a better month than August; and in 

 future the writer will make his plantations in .Fane if the plants are to be had 

 from three to four inches high. Every one knows who has tried it that late 

 autumn or spring planting, cutting the canes to four or six inches long, does 

 not result in a good plant the first bearing year : the canes are branchy, and as 

 a rule not very strong. But by the early system of moving plants a good cane 

 is obtained the first year, and the following one a good supply of fruit, thus 

 gaining almost two years on the old system. Try it. 



LARGE CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES. 



President 0. B. Galusha, of the Illinois Horticultural Society, contributes]to 

 Farmer and Fruit-grower his metlioJ of management: ■•'As it may again be 



