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GOOSEBERRIES 



Give wonderful crops here. One season we sold over thirteen dollars' 

 worth of this fruit from a piece of ground not more than a rod square. 



APRICOTS 



Are among our earliest tree-bearing fruits, and sometimes give us fruit 

 when peaches are injured by the severity of our winters. No fruitman's 

 orchard is perfect without this delicious fruit. The tree also gives you 

 a variety in contrast with all others that lends a charm to your place 

 that cannot be obtained without them. No richer and nicer fruit can 

 be raised, and, as it comes so early, never fails to^ive good returns to 

 the cash side of your account. 



QUINCES 



Have been raised here for years past, but not in large quantities, not 

 because they do not add to the beauty and profit of the horticulturist, 

 but because other fruits have been pressed to the front to that extent 

 that this fruit has been shamefully negleced. 



PEARS 



Have come in and much attention was given to this fruit, but of late 

 years blight, that has so fatally blighted the prospects of so many, has 

 had a tendency to discourage largely the raising of this fruit that can 

 be eaten so many months in the year. Within a few years past, blight- 

 proof varieties have been originated, and it will not be long before a 

 new impetus will be given to this industry in this county. They always 

 have given good returns to the fruit grower, and as we have lands in 

 this country so well adapted to this fruit, and as the horticulturist always 

 keeps his eye on the profits of an industry, it is apprehended that at 

 no distant day they will be raised and sold by the car load, as are our 

 apples, and give remunerative returns, sold north and west of us even 

 up into the empire of Canada. 



BLACKBERRIES 



Do well here. The writer had, a few years ago, a small piece of ground 

 covering but a few rods, that gave him a return of about eight bushels 

 of berries and remained in bearing for nearly two months, where we 



