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handsome shape and of large size; carries the fruit high on strong foot 

 stalks ; quality first rate, and from which we expect to gather fruit 

 when all the rest are gone. 



Henry Schnell, of Glasgow, one of our members, has a seedling 

 that promises to be a great step toward earliness, which is what we 

 need. When we get one a week earlier than we now have and Gandy 

 for late, we may prolong the season of this excellent fruit considerably 

 by planting the early ones on a southern slope and the late ones on 

 the north side of a hill. Thinning out the blossoms; while in bloom I 

 chip about half the blossoms off some dozen Crescent plants; it did 

 not take me five minutes, yet it was done carefully all over the plant, 

 and now when they ripen, the difference is surprising. There is the same 

 -quantity in weight of fruit, and takes but half the time to pick it. 

 Where there are a lot of children I am sure this will be worth doing. 



Cherries are a full crop, and Bowman's May is all gone, but I did 

 not get them. The cedar birds have cleaned the trees but they left me 

 the stems with the stones. Reine Hortense, May Duke, Carnation, 

 Gov. Wood and Napoleon are yet to come, and if I am spared a few 

 days longer there will be some fewer birds in this neighborhood than 

 now. On the table before me lay two pounds of fine shot, near by a 

 good package of powder, and against the wall hangs an excellent 

 bre ech-loader with some shells already loaded. I am somewhat of an 

 ornithologist, but have yet to learn any good that these cedar birds do, 

 w hile I know that they will ruin the fruit of a good-sized cherry orchard. 

 Grapes promise well just now, but we are never sure of them until 

 ripe and gathered in a basket or in one's hand ready to eat. 



I suppose others of my committee will send you their report direct, 

 as none have sent theirs to me. 



SMALL FRUITS AT GLASGOW. 



HENRY SCHNELL. 



Mr. L. A. Goodman, Secretary, etc.: 



My name being on the programe for a report on "small fruits," I 

 here send a few notes. 



I am sorry it is so that I cannot be with you. We are right in the 

 midst of our berry crop— picking 1,500 to 2,000 quarts per day. If I 

 leave, things will not move right. I hope you will have a good meeting 

 and an enjoyable time. 



Strawberries— Extra fine and yielding well, but the market is full 

 of small berries everywhere. Fancy sell at good prices and are wanted. 



