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from a single bush the past season.) Its berries are the color of the 
Houghton and about one-third larger than the Downing. Itis not 
of fine quality, being quite sour and thin meated. It is hard to 
pick, the thorns being stiff and long and the berries growing all 
through the bush. 
Golden Prolific is a strong, stocky grower and a good yielder of 
nice, golden berries, about like Red Jacket in size and quality. 
Columbus is of the largest size, golden color and good quality. 
The plant is a sturdy, stocky grower and productive. I have a good 
opinion of this variety and think it will prove valuable. 
Triumph. This pleases me the most of all the varieties we have yet 
fruited. Itisa strong, free grower and enormously productive of 
very large, yellow berries of the best quality. It is the easiest to 
pick of all I have seen, the fruit being so large and so thickly set 
along the branches that they can be picked by the handfuJ. There 
are very few thorns on the old wood, and those on the new wood are 
not very strong. 
GRAPES. 
There is an almost endless number of varieties, all of which, I sup- 
pose, are of some value in some places, but after trying nearly fifty 
of them, have come to the conclusion that the man that plants 
Moore’s Early, Worden and Concord for black, Brighton for red and 
Niagara and Moore’s Diamond for white, has a better assortment 
than if he had the whole list. I do not know about other markets, 
but find in our own home market that the black varieties will out- 
sell the white ones. If I could have but one market variety, I think 
it would be Concord. 
In conclusion, then, I would say to the market grower; get, and 
thoroughly test all the promising new varieties as they are intro- 
duced, giving them only such care and attention as you are able or 
willing to give to your main planting, and keeping in mind all the 
time that only about one in twenty will prove of more value than 
the ones you already have. When you have become satisfied that 
the new one is better in every way than the best old ones, then, and 
not until then, is it advisable to plant largely of that variety. 
EVERGREENS FOR SHELTER AND ORNAMENT. 
W. D. BOYNTON. 
(Read at the Summer Meeting, 1895, of the Wisconsin State Herticultural Society.) 
As a practical people living in a severely practical age, let us first 
consider this subject from the point of utility. Looked at from 
this standpoint, we have several good reasons for advocating the 
general planting of evergreen shelter belts, among them the fol- 
lowing: 
First. For protection against the cold winds and driving storms 
of our severe northern winters and securing a more even distribu- 
tion of snow. Second. As a retainer and conservator of moisture 
during the long, dry spells, which seem year by year to become 
