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berry on the market; $1.00 per doz., yet "Early Harvest " is 

 contending for this same prize. 



" Topsy " is only to be had by "subscription for South's' 

 Orchard and Garden/' and he claims to have refused to sell 

 at $5,00 a plant; this is claimed very choice and productive. 



" Lucretia Dewberry," $1.00 per doz., is doubtless the 

 earliest most productive trailing blackberry on the market; 

 the only trouble is to be sure you get the true " Lucretia " 

 from reliable dealers; this is as easily covered as strawber- 

 ries, and exceedingly productive. 



" Erie," first called Uncle Tom, only $5.00 per doz., with 

 the modest claim of exceeding Snyder in hardiness, Wilson, 

 Jr., in earliness, Lawton in size, and Kittatinny in quality; 

 enormous crops for seven years, when no mulch, no manure 

 and no pruning. 



GRAPES. 



While so many new varieties are being continually 

 brought outjt is difiicult to choose one until you have failed 

 with twenty. There has been a great fever on white var- 

 ieties and one prominent and reliable firm offers only thirty- 

 six white kinds in their last catalogue. 



From present indications I should put them in the follow- 

 ing order for adaption and success : 



" Victoria " (by T, B, Miner), best white, " not a fault in 

 vine or fruit; healthy, hardy, big production, good to eat, 

 best in quality — a seedling of Concord," now offered at 

 $1,00 each, 



" Empire Slate " (Rickett's) " seedling of Hartford and 

 Clinton, as early as Moore's early and Hartford, white, free 

 from mildew, big production, bunches six to ten inches, 

 keeps as well a catawba, everything good about it except, 

 one grower says, no earlier than Concord; " 78 cents each, 



" Moore's Diamond " (by 'I. Moore, father of Brighton), 

 " seedling of Concord and lona, greenish, yellowish white, 

 two weeks earlier ;than Concord, big, healthy production, 

 hardy," it is now offered at $1 50 each, 



" Francis B. Hayes," " from the same lot of seedlings as 

 Moore's early white, big, hardy, healthy, large," 50 cents 

 each. 



