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GRAPES. 



Market Varieties: — Moore's Early, Worden, Concord, King, Diamond, Niagara, Dela- 

 ware. 



For Home Use: — ^Winchel or Green Mountain, Moore's Early, Diamond, Worden, 

 Niagara, Delaware, Brighton, Ulster. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



Market Varieties: — Senator Dunlap, Wm. Belt, Haverland, Clyde, Bubach, Uncle 

 Jim or Dornan, Brandywine, Sample, Aroma, Gandy, Kittie Rice, Downing's Bride. 



For Home Use: — Marshall (very best quality), Senator Dunlap, Brandywine, Wm. 

 Belt, Michel's Early, Gandy. 



RASPBERRIES. 



Market Varieties: — Black — Eureka, Conrath, Cumberland, Kansas, Gregg. 

 Red — Early King, Marlboro, Cuthbert, Miller. 

 Purple — Coliunbian, Shaffer. 



For Home Use: — Eureka and Cmnberland, black; Early ffing and Cuthbert, red; Co- 

 lumbian, purple. 



BLACKBERRIES. 



Market Varieties: — Early King, Erie, Minnewaska, Snyder, Wilson, El Dorado. 

 For Home Use: — Early Harvest, Eldorado, Snyder (very hardy). 



GOOSEBERRIES. 



Downing, Champion, Chautauqua. 



CURRANTS. 



London Market, Fay's Prolific, Wilder. 



A CHAPTER ON LAWNS. 



(dr. W. J. BEAL, AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.) 



Trees and grass are two great elenr-its of landscape gardening. The finest lawn will 

 retain a surface of uniform color an growth — no mingling of light and dark spots nor of 

 grasses which grow at different rates of speed. 



" Grass is the most lowly, the simplest, and the loveliest element to be used in the adorn- 

 ment of home. A smooth, closely shaven surface of grass is by far the most essential 

 element of beauty on the grounds of a suburban home." — (F. J. Scott.) 



"It would be a great gain to horticulture if ten out of every twelve 'flowerbeds' in 

 Europe were blotted out with fresh green grass." — (Robinson's Parks of Paris.) 



"A lawn is the ground work of a landscape garden." — (H. W. Sargent.) 



Listen to A. J. Downing: "For this purpose we do not look upon grass with the eyes 

 of the farmer who raises three tons to the acre. We have no patience with the tall and 

 gigantic fodder by this name, that grows in the fertile bottoms of the West, so tall that 

 the largest Durham is lost to view while walking through it. No, we love the soft turf 

 which is thrown like a smooth natural carpet over the swelling outlines of the smiUng 

 earth. 



"Fine lawns are possible in all the northern half of the Union, although an American 

 summer does not, like that of Britain, ever moist and humid, naturally favor the condi- 

 tion of fine lawns. The necessary conditions for a good lawn are deep soil, the proper 

 kinds of grasses, and frequent mowing. Let the whole area to be laid down be thoroughly 

 moved and broken up two feet deep. Let the surface be raked smooth and entirely cleared 

 of even the smallest stone. The object of a lawn is not to obtain a heavy crop of hay, 

 but simply to maintain perpetual verdure. Rich soil would defeat our object by caus- 

 ing a rank growth and coarse stalks, when we wish a short growth and soft herbage. Let 

 the soil, therefore, be good, but not rich; depth, and the power of retaining moisture are 

 the truly needful qualities. 



"Now for the sowing, and here a farmer would advise you to 'seed down with oats,' 

 or some such established agricultural precept. Do not listen to him for a moment. Do 

 not suppose you are going to assist a weak growing plant by sowing along with it a coarser 

 groving one to starve it. 



