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(juarts. 1 consider two thousand pecks a moderate yield per acre 

 for this variety. I sold most of mine at $1 per peck, and they will 

 pay well at half this price, but the demand is limited unless they can 

 in some way he preserved for winter use at a moderate cost. 



Currants. With currants as well as gooseberries there is no hot 

 sun here to curl the leaves, stint the growth, and injure the fruit ; 

 most of the shoots making a growth of from two to three feet each 

 in one season. I think there are fortunes for those who ma3' engage 

 in currant culture, making them into jelly for the outside market. 

 The most of mine are the Red Cherry' varietj', yet I think I shall 

 hereafter set mostly Fay's Prolific and White Grape. 



Strawberries are a goop crop here and may be held back in the 

 spring, making the fruit late, ripening after the wild ones here are 

 gone and outside markets bare, when I think the}' can be shipped at 

 a profit. I have the Bidwell, Jumbo, Finch, Piper, Daniel Boone, 

 Sharpless and Manchester, which have all done well, none winter- 

 killed ; the last two named varieties take the lead. 



Raspberries are right at home here, and, there being so many wild 

 ones, I have as yet done but little with this fruit. The Herstine and 

 Crimson Beaut}' are perfectly hardy, and have stood up during the 

 winter uninjured. 



Blackberries have received but little attention : I do not know of a 

 blackberr}' hardy enough to stand up during the winter. 



I have in my experimental grounds Smith's Improved gooseberry ; 

 Victoria and Fay's Prolific currants ; Parry, Jewell and Belmont 

 strawberry ; Gregg, Cuthbert, Marlboro' and Golden Thornless 

 raspberries; Agawam, Wilson, Jr., Staymen's Early and Sn3'der 

 blackberry ; and all of the above have done well so far but have not 

 been thoroughl}' tested yet. I intend to add, the coming spring, Rus- 

 sian mulberry, apricot and pear with some choice varieties of apples 

 and small fruits. My nursery being nearh' one hundred miles further 

 north than an}' other in the United States, I have been able to profit 

 but little from the experience of others. The modes of treatment 

 used to advantage by those farther south are not safe here. Should 

 any one of this Society have a choice fruit and wish to have its hardi- 

 ness tested, if they will send it to me in the spring it shall receive 

 my personal attention. 



Hoidton. 



