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could Ljct fresh berries every da)'. The varieties that gave such ample 

 return (and that without cultivation) were Lawton and Kittitany. 

 These are subject to winter kill, but other varieties have come to take 

 their place that are perfectly hardy, and yet c^ive immense crops of this 

 precious fruit just before the height of our warm days begin, and thus 

 throw out from the system that which causes summer complaints and 

 chills. It is a sight worth seeing to look upon my blackberries now in 

 blossom. Not a cane injured, although the winter passed was so severe. 

 They are Snyders. 



RASPBERRIES 



Have been raised on my place for about twenty years past. They are 

 Doolittles. Others have been added to these: Hopkins, Tyler and 

 Souhegan, but none of them as yet have proven themselves much superior 

 to the Doolittles. This fruit ripens, followed by the blackberry, that 

 gives you fruit for about three months fresh from the canes. The rasp- 

 berry follows the strawberry in ripening, and no man's fruit farm is 

 complete without them. 



You, who live in our cities, do not know the luxuries enjoyed by 

 the farmers and horticulturists and their families. Apples Jiave been 

 kept in my cellar (and it is only an ordinary one) from fall until the 

 next fall on to the following February, which would be over one year 

 and about one-fourth of a year. We have in our cellar now (May 25) 

 several varieties of apples in fair condition. 



This article is perhaps too long, but it would certainly be uncom- 

 pleted, were not the reader informed in a word why fruits do better here 

 than almost any other place on the globe, but it can be told in a word, 

 and that is, we have natural under-drainage. In the east, fruit can not 

 be raised successfully and in perfection without under-drainage, and 

 this adds enormously to the expense of fruit-raising. 



STEPHEN I5LANCHARD. 



