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a garden. One hundred Crescent plants in one season will grow 

 plants enough to produce five hundred quarts the following year, 

 but you want one- third as many plants of Capt. Jack, Sharpless, 

 Chas. Downing, Glendale, Cumberland Triumph, Crystal City, 

 Wilson, or some other variety that is perfect in the blossom, to 

 plant alongside the Crescent, when that is planted. The Green 

 Prolific is another choice family berry, which is also pistillate, 

 and needs every third or fifth row of some of the above kinds, 

 except Crescent, to fertilize it. 



Miner's Great Prolific is claimed to have fruited seventeen 

 thousand quarts per acre; has a large, firm berry, of good quality 

 for home and market. I have dug so close for plants, that I 

 have not given it a fair chance on my grounds. 



Champion or Windsor Chief is good for market purposes, 

 handsome, vigorous, hardy and productive (P) (pistillate). 



Col. Cheney (P), very large, irregular, soft, excellent, produc- 

 tive; needs rich soil; is one of the most satisfactory amateur 

 sorts; has fruited berries that measure eight inches in circum- 

 ference. 



Duchess, very early, medium size, productive. 



Duncan, very choice quality, one of the best for family, large, 

 productive. 



Downer's Prolific, excellent quality, productive; rather small,' 

 but profitable for family and market. 



Reed's Late Pine (P), choice flavor, productive. 



Black Defiance, very attractive, choice, large, productive. 



Golden Defiance (P), very choice, large, productive. 



Ped Jacket, early, very large, soft; excellent for family use, 

 if it did not hull so hard; this " Injnn " is hard to scalp, while 

 Captain Jack, unless picked carefully, will scalp himself. 



Pussell's Advance, very large, soft, but choice family berry. 



This closes the list of the best nineteen out of fifty varieties, 

 for light soils, and the first ten kinds include the best for profit 

 and general planting; most of these last nine are worthy a place 

 in the amateur list. 



I will name a few kinds that succeed best on clay soil and that 

 need high culture and a good deal of petting; some of them 



