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profit in the cultivation of the cauliflower for the Jacksonville market had 

 experienced a decided change ! 



Mr. R. H. Roberts exhibited one pint of cherry currants, for 

 which he was offered ^1.50 by some eastern tree peddlers present, who 

 could not procure such specimens at home. 



Mr. Ticknor exhibited the Turner Seedling, Miami, Golden Cap, 

 Ohio Everbearing, Purple Dulcet, Philadelphia and Seneca raspberries. 

 He considered the Seneca the best black-cap for general cultivation. He 

 had sold seventy-five dollars' worth from a single row, ten rods long. He 

 considered it superior to the other black-caps in size and flavor. 



Mr. Baldwin would recommend the Davison's Thornless for culti- 

 vation in every family garden ; with him it fruited heavily and a week or 

 ten days earlier than any other variety he ever cultivated, which made it 

 a leading market variety. Mr. Baldwin is the disseminator of the Turner, 

 a red variety originating with Prof. Turner of this place. He and many 

 others in this vicinity had been remarkably successful in its cultivation. 

 It has proved much more hardy here than any other of the red sorts, 

 much more prolific, and the fruit is firm enough to bear shipping to St. 

 Louis or Chicago in good condition. He has fourteen acres now in bear- 

 ing, and finds ready sale for all the fruit, by shipping to St. Louis, Peoria, 

 Quincy and Springfield. He had never made a business of shipping to 

 Chicago — not being able to make satisfactory arrangements with trans- 

 portation companies. 



A great objection to this berry, by some who had attempted its culti- 

 vation, was its remarkable tendency to throw up suckers. It is absolutely 

 necessary that these be kept down, if a good crop of fruit is desired. 

 This Mr. Baldwin does with a horse and plow ; his plants were set eight 

 feet apart one way, and allowed to run together in the rows ; he then 

 confines them to rows two feet wide at the base, and allows neither 

 suckers, grass or weeds to grow between them. 



