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'fruits. To secure large, bright, and firm fruit, raspberry hills should not 

 : be closer than six feet, and for strong growers like Cuthbert, 7 or even 8 

 feet is better. Irrigation is profitable in strawberry growing, where it is 

 at all possible. In many cases it prevents crop failures that would other- 

 wise occur. Marketing demands much thought and study. It pays the 

 grower to study the methods of packing to be seen in the fruit that comes 

 to his market. Fruit of a uniform grade, nicely put up, and marked with 

 the grower's name and address, is sure of a market. The eye of the buyer 

 T must be caught and his attention held by the superior quality and packing 

 •of the fruit. The grower's name should have a positive value in the mar- 

 ket as the result of his persistent adherence to the policy of sending out 

 ■only good fruit. The home is, after all, the best market for the American 

 fruitgrower. Farmers, and even orchardists, have too little of small fruit 

 on their tables. Half a bushel of fruit per day the year round can be 

 ^profitably disposed of by the average family. A Connecticut farmer kept 

 an account of the small fruit grown on half an acre of ground and used by 

 his family last year. He charged the family with the fruit at market 

 Tates and found it amounted to $365, or more than $700 per acre. Such 

 •small fruit culture pays, not only in the money value of the product, but in 

 the healthful outdoor habits of life which it encourages, and the hundred 

 • other ways in which a garden ministers to mental and physical health. 



Mr. J. T. Lovett discussed " New and Promising Small Fruits." Among 

 ;strawberries Cloud (imp.) was recommended to the southern grower for 

 ^shipment north. Michel was considered valuable on account of extreme 

 •earliness, and Lovett's Early worthy of mention. Other strawberries were 

 •characterized as follows: Lady Rusk (imp.), plant of moderate growth, 

 •evidently requiring deep, rich soil; Jucunda Improved, a strong and vigor- 

 ous grower even upon sandy loam, fruit in all respects resembling closely 

 its illustrious parent; Crawford, excellent for exhibition purposes, but 

 •demanding high culture and heavy soil; Yale, resembling Crawford, fruit 

 firmer but not so large; Louise, fine for the amateur, but requiring high 

 culture; Edgar Queen (imp.), resembling Sharpless, but more productive 

 and ripening fruit better; Eureka (imp.), of the Sharpless type, more pro- 

 ductive, but not so large; Mrs. Cleveland (imp.), very vigorous and pro- 

 ductive, but fruit of light color, quite soft, and medium size; Waldron 

 (imp.) has few equals in size and productiveness, but lacks firmness; 

 Viola, apparently identical with Monarch of the West; Iowa Beauty, 

 without exception the most beautiful strawberry he had yet grown, but 

 how well it will succeed generally is not yet determined; Parker Earle, 

 the most promising variety for general culture that has recently appeared, 

 productive, large, of good quality, in firmness to be classed with Sharpless; 

 Oandy, the latest to ripen, is large, firm, and excellent, but requires high 

 •culture. The first three varieties are early, the last one, late; the others 

 ripen at mid season. 



Of the black raspberries, Kansas and Lovett were mentioned as being 

 early; Progress and Older as promising for second ripening, and Palmer, 

 Cromwell, and Carman as closely resembling Souhegan. The only new red 

 raspberry mentioned, Thompson's Early Prolific, was highly praised. 

 Child's Japanese Wineberry, cane of strong growth and ornamental fruit, 

 ripens at close of raspberry season, is attractive in appearance, but too 

 soft for transportation, and too sour for most people. 



Of blackberries, Early King seemed to Mr. Lovett to possess much 

 merit as an early sort, especially for the home garden. Others were men- 



