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they certainly ought to have a place in every collection. Scarlet 

 Gem has fine everbearing qualities and consider it one of the best. 

 Of the other sorts we will have to wait another year before ex- 

 pressing our opinion. 



BlacTcherries. — Kittatinny, AVestern Triumph and Needham's 

 White are the only kind we have ; but cannot brag on either of 

 them. The former two ripened a few enormous, large specimens, 

 but very few of them ; while the last named has not fruited with 

 us yet. We have them all on rich ground, but expect to set out a 

 new plantation on poorer land, in order to give them a thorough 

 trial. We have seen the Lawton doing very fine, in a garden, a- 

 few miles distant. 



Currants. — Of these we have but few, mostly red and white 

 Dutch. We like the white best, but we are not acquainted with 

 the newer and finer sorts ; if we were, perhaps we would report 

 different. 



Gooseherries. — Houghton's Seedling is the only variety we have 

 in fruit, though we have others on trial. Though we do not consider 

 gooseberries much of a fruit when in their best, we must say that 

 Houghton did excellent for us. 



REPORT OF JACOB FAITH, OF MOKTEVALLO. 



MoNTEVALLO, Dec. 8th, 1884. 



This meeting is for a good purjDOse. I am sorry that I cannot 

 be present, and you have my best wishes. I would not miss being 

 a member for $1.00 a year. I value my horticultural report much 

 higher than the cost of being a member. 



The past season I had a good and paying crop of strawberries 

 from one and one-fourth acres. T sold 1625 worth of strawberries. 

 They sold from eight to twenty cents per quart. My last 

 report in form of a table, still holds good for this year, with the 

 exception of the Lennings White which falls two short in produc- 

 tiveness, and Chas. Downing and Miner's Prolific a gain of one point 

 each . 



I can grow strawberries for two cents per quart, and get them 

 picked for one and one-half cents per quart. Who would deprive 

 himself and family of this delicious fruit for three and @ne-half 

 cents per quart? I have been successful in mixing the Chas. Down- 

 ing with the Crescent, as the Chas. Downing blooms about the 

 same time as the Crescent, which is a pistilate and must be ferti- 

 lized with a staminate, blooming and ripening at the same time. 



