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rate; vine hardy and a good bearer. The Delaware is perfectly at 

 home in the Fox river valley, and will do well with a fair chance. 

 It is a slow grower for the first two or three years, but bears well 

 after it gets at it. This stands at the head of the list of table 

 grapes for at least all the country this side the Rocky moun- 

 tains. The Concord is too well known to be more than mentioned. 

 The Worden is a new variety that promises well with us. Rogers* 

 No. 3, No. 4. No. 9, No. 10, No. 15, and No. 19, are all good, and 

 with the others named will make up a list of grapes from which 

 you may have a constant supply of this delicious fruit from the fif- 

 teenth of August until the first of the following April. 



The wild blackberries are generally so plenty and so good, that 

 it is useless for us to try to compete with them. All of the above 

 named fruits, except the currant, are much better for being slightly 

 covered in the winter. To keep up a constant supply of the best 

 of strawberries, a new bed should be set at least every other year. 

 Raspberries if properly cared for, will 1 ast from six to ten years. 

 Currants and grapes will last a long time, and continue in good 

 condition when treated well. 



Gentlemen, I have in a very hasty manner been over the list of 

 common vegetables and fruits, such as every farmer might and 

 ought to have, and have them, not as a rarity and a luxury, but as 

 an every day dish, and as plenty and as free for yourselves, your 

 families and your friends, as are the beans, pork, potatoes and 

 bread and butter, with which your tables are so well laden. I do not 

 believe that the majority of our farmers can afford to do without a 

 good garden. There is not another acre of land upon your farm 

 that will pay as well as the one donated to a garden, provided, it 

 is well cared for. But it must not be left to care for itself, nor 

 must it be left to be cared for nights and mornings, when you are 

 either in too much of a hurry or too tired to do the work well. 

 Neither must it be left for rainy days, or days when there is noth- 

 ing else to do. Let it be thoroughly understood that it is to be 

 properly cared for, and at the proper time, just as much as your 

 wheat, your corn, or your cows are cared for. With this plan 

 adopted and carried out, it would only be a short time before you 

 would wonder how you ever got along without a good garden. In 

 this matter I am not speaking at random or by guess. Many years* 

 experience with a large family about me, has told me of its great 



