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spend for tobacco in one year, provided you spend 25 cents a week. 

 The yield of berries per acre in one year with proper culture and selec- 

 tion of varieties is as follows : Strawberries 300 bushels, rows 4 feet 

 apart; set plants in rows 10 to 15 inches ; will commence ripening mid- 

 dle of May and continue five weeks; raspberries 75 bushels, rows 7 

 feet apart, plants 2 feet apart ; will commence ripening before the late 

 sorts of strawberries are gone ; blackberries 110 bushels, rows 8 feet, 

 set plants in rows 12 to 15 inches apart ; will commence ripening before 

 late raspberries are gone. The Early Harvest has been ripe with me 

 the 9th of June, with late strawberries. Plum-trees will bear the 

 fourth year 125 bushel, per acre ; plant 12 to 15 feet apart ; the proper 

 selections will ripen three months. Best time to set plants is early 

 apring. Who will deprive themselves of fruit at the above prices in a 

 county where berries have never been known to fail? The time has 

 <iome that every enterprising land and lot owner will plant trees and 

 vines. I will raise 2000 bushels of strawberries ready for picking at 

 two cents per quart — the Bubach varieties, and the Kittatinny black- 

 berry — the coming season. I expect the finest berries in Missouri, and 



the prettiest girls to pick them. 



Jacob Faith. 

 Two miles west of Montevallo. 



Of Interest to Grape Growers. 



IPublished by request of the Publication committee of the Missouri Valley Horti- 

 cultural Society.] 



Cut this out and paste it in your scrap book, as it is information 

 not generally known, and of the greatest interest to growers of the 

 vine. It is from the " Rural ^ew Yorker : " 



Question: I am planting a collection of grapes especially for 

 exhibition purposes. I have about 100 varieties planted now, all of 

 the oldest and best-known sorts. How many varieties are there, such 

 as I can grow in Ohio ? I don't understand the Rogers grape in full. 

 Who is or was this Rogers, and how many varieties did he introduce, 

 and who is Ricketts, and about his varieties ? What is your opinion 

 of the Gaertner ( Rogers No. 14) grape, and will it do for me to plant 

 for market? 



Answer: E. S. Rogers, of Salem, Mass., is the man who may be 

 considered the pioneer in American grape-crossing. He used native 

 pollen upon foreign varieties, and vice versa, and the following are 

 among the best of his varieties so produced : Nos. 2, 5, 8, 30, 1 

 (Goethe), 3 (Massasoit), 5 (Wilder), 9 (Lindley), 14 (Gaertner), 15 (Aga- 



