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GRAPES. 



Of grapes, 4000 Moore's Early, 4000 Diamond, 2000 VVorden, 2030 Pocklington, 

 1000 Woodruir Red, 1000 Goetlie— aiming to atrilve a bare market with Moore's 

 Early and Diamond, and when the Concord glut is over, to follow with Pockling- 

 ton and Goethe. 



BLACKBERRIES, 



Of blackberries, 10,000 Erie, or Minnewaska, which are very similar, hardy, 

 productive and largest size, early, and sell well on a full market; 10,000 Snyder, 

 and 5000 Taylor. 



RASPBERRIES. 



Kaspberries ( black ), 10,000 Palmer, 8000 Hopkins, 8000 Ohio and 5000 Shaffer 

 (red). 



STRAWBERRIES. 



Of the whole catalogue of from 150 to 200 kinds, tested on my farm, I would 

 now plant the following as the best six varieties, all things considered: 10,000 

 Bubach No. 5, 5000 Racster, 5000 Michel's Early, 2000 Wartield No. 2, lOOO Lady 

 Rusk, 1000 Crawford. Michel, Racster and Crawford are staminates, the rest pis- 

 tillates. 



Having so long ago turned my attenti-^n from the vegetable to the fruit gar- 

 den, I feel incompetent to advise as to the best vegetables to plant, but I must here 

 condemn the habit so common of gathering up the surplus of the neighborhood to 

 plant, simply because it may be had for the asking or hinting for. As such a 

 selection is a curse to any planter, it would be far cheaper, in the end, to buy of the 

 seed-grower or nurseryman at high prices for the best, than to plant such stuff as 

 a gift. Plant celery, parsnips, Everitte potatoes ; sow sorghum, plant Caffrey corn ; 

 it yields two full crops of excellent fodder the same season, wet or dry. Plant 

 plenty of mangels, turnlpa and scxuashes. All yield an abundance of nutritious, 

 wholesome food. 



THE PXOWER GARDEN, 



Not necessarily a separate garden, but the ornamental phase of the garden. Is 

 there a spot on earth where the adorable Creator does not teach us by the beauties 

 of nature to plant and cultivate the ornamental ? What shall we plant thsre ? The 

 greatest variety of bloam through the whole season at the least expense may be had 

 from planting asters, petunias, phlox, pansies and verbenas, geraniums, gladiolus 

 and dahlias. Of hardy kinds: Pinks, tulips, lilies, peoniaa, and the following 

 roses : General NYashington, Madame Charles Wood,Ulrich Brunner, Paul Neyron, 

 Madam Plantier and General .Jacqueminot. Nothing is more desirable than a 

 group of Erianthus revennae and Eulalie zebrina, two hardy ornamental grasses, 

 growing 12 feet high, with beautiful pampas-like plumes. These, with ricinus (oil 

 bean), cannas, centaureas and coleus, make the grandest display in the yard or 

 lawn. Of ornamental or deciduous trees, such as drop their leaves in the fall, the 

 cut-leaf weeping birch, Kilmarnock weeping willow, mountain ash and Teas' 

 weeping mulberry, cannot be excelled in grace and beauty. In shrubs of this 

 class the hydrangea, P. G., Japan quince, Weigelia rose and calicanthus (sweet 

 shrub J. Of climbers, wisteria, Japan and coral honeysuckles are the best. Of 

 evergreens, tall growing trees, the picae pungens ( silver tree), balsam and Nord- 

 man silver fir are superb. Of low-growing trees and shrubs, plumosa, Irish and 

 English junipers, Siberian globosa and pyramidal arbor vitae are elegant in groups 

 about the home, the public school grounds, the church-yard, and beside the public 

 highways, are very ornamental. 



