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that is needed is to Jcnoiv how. The care arid labor which the farmer gives to 

 an acre of corn would place upon his table a full peck of delicious and blush- 

 ing strawberries every day during all the strawberry season. Early cherries, 

 such as l\^e. Early Purple Guigne and some other sorts, are already fully 

 matured. The later will ripen long after we have ripe currants and the earlier 

 raspberries. The earliest apples and pears are ready by the time of wheat har- 

 vest ; apricots, where they succeed, are even with them ; and after these the 

 crowd begins to thicken with early plums, and with the rapid succession of 

 apples, pears, peaches, blackberries, grapes, — all through autumn and into 

 Avinter. Winter Xelis, Anjou, and Lawrence pears, keep up a bountiful supply 

 into January, and Josephine de Malines is as melting and delicious in Eeb- 

 ruary, and later, as the best pears of autumn, (In my own case, so profusely 

 have the trees borne, that I found a difficulty in getting rid of my midwinter 

 supply, until the students of a large boarding school in the neighborhood 

 kindly assisted, without chargp.) Grapes may be made to contribute a daily 

 supply throughout the autumn months, and with proper management, and 

 with a well constructed fruit room, the longest keeping sorts may continue 

 until spring. Winter apples will afford a supply until June. 



KEEPING FRUIT. 



After having selected the right sorts for a succession, planted them on suit- 

 able ground, given them proper attention by cultivation, and Avhat is very 

 important, planted enough to give a copious supply, there is still one other 

 most essential requisite, — a good apartment to keep them in. Here is the 

 point where so many fail. I will illustrate my meaning by a single case. A 

 cultivator had a few Winter ISTelis pear trees. He gathered the fruit at the 

 usual time, in autumn, and placed them in his warm cellar. They soon ripened, 

 and were all gone before the end of November. Another cultivator gathered 

 his about the same time, and placed theuj in a cool out-house, facing the 

 North. They remained unchanged till near the beginning of December, when 

 he removed them to his fruit room. This was an apartment separated from 

 the rest of his cellar by a solid brick wall, made dry by the bottom and sides 

 being covered with a coating of water lime cement, and the windows so hung 

 on adjus'iug hinges that the temperature could be regulated by the thermom- 

 eter, to near the freezing point. These pears kept until midwinter. 



FAMILY SUPPLY. 



^[ay we not hope that the day is not distant when, through the influence of 

 horticultural and pomological societies, and a more geiieral dissemination of 

 books and periodicals on the subject, every man in the land may be furnished 

 with the yearly circle of fruits, for a full supply for his family the year round. 

 The extent of ground to be planted for this purpose may not be large. A piece 

 three rods square, jilanted with the earlier and later strawberries, beginning 

 with the Nicanor and Scarlets, and ending with the Jucuuda and Kentucky, 

 will give him live quarts daily for a full month. The same extent of ground 

 will furnisli him an equal supply of raspberries and blackberries, and currants, 

 to follow the strawberries. A quarter of an acre of summer and autumn pears, 

 and another quarter acre of winter pears, will be likely to give an abundant 

 suppl}', provided care is taken to plant the right sorts. An acre of well man- 

 aged apple orchard will afford (except in the poorest seasons) all the apples that 

 a medium sized family can manage for a year, provided they are properly cared 



