THE CANADIAN HOETICTTLTURIST. 



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Turner Raspbei-iy, and fully ten days 

 in advance of the first ripening berries 

 of Wilson's Early — ripening its entire 

 crop in a short period, enabling the 

 fruit-gi'ower to gather the whole of it 

 in a few pickings and have it out of the 

 way while prices are high and by the 

 time of making the first picking of the 

 old popular Wilson. Canes are of ra- 

 ther dwarf, rugged, upright growth, with 

 numerous side branches, enormously 

 productive and very hardy. In hardi- 

 ness it nearly or quite equals the ii'on 

 clad Synder, having stood twenty de- 

 grees below zero in Illinois, without 

 being harmed. Owing to its dwarf 

 habit it shoiild be planted in rows but 

 five feet apart and three feet apart in 

 the rows, while it is so excessively pro- 

 lific it needs to be pruned severely to 

 check this tendency and thus add size to 

 the fruit. Blossoms altogether perfect 

 or self fertilizing. It is decidedly dis- 

 tinct from all the standard varieties, 

 descending apparently from a different 

 species, and from its remarkable earK- 

 ness and other merits is of untold value 

 to all growers of fruit, whether for mar- 

 ket or for family use only. IIa^-ing 

 fruited it for two seasons I speak from 

 experience, and am confident that 

 those with whom the Wilson and other 

 early varieties have proved profitable 

 in the past, will find in Early Harvest 

 a berry yielding even greater returns in 

 the future. 



Paiker Earle, Pres. Mississippi Val- 

 ley Horticultural Society, before the 

 American Pomological Society, Septem- 

 ber, 1883, says: — " I have fruited the 

 Early Harvest three seasons, and I find 

 it a berry with many mei-its. Ibis the 

 earliest to ripen of all the blackberries. 

 With us it ripens a week or more be- 

 fore the Wilson ; others report even 

 more difference. It ripens with the red 

 raspberries. This one quality gives it 

 unrivalled advantages for market grow- 

 ing wherever early ripening is desirable, 



and for all growers for home use. The 

 fruit is only medium in size, but it is a 

 very symmetrical and uniform berry, 

 making a handsome dish on the table, 

 and a fine appearance in the market. 

 It carries thi'ee hundred miles to mar 

 ket with us in excellent condition and 

 pleases buyers. The plant is healthy, 

 of sturdy but not rampant growth. It 

 is so far ^Jeifectly hardy in South and 

 South Central Illinois, and has with us 

 endured fifteen below zero, and further 

 north twenty below, without material 

 harm. It is exceedingly prolific, and 

 in all respects, so far as I have yet seen, 

 excepting its rather inferior size, it is a 

 perfect blackberry. But though it is 

 no bigger than Snyder, and possibly not 

 so large, yet it is so early, and it bears 

 so well, and eats so well, and ships 

 so well, and sells so well, that it has 

 very notable value for a large portion 

 of our country. 



We give also an engraving of Brun- 

 ton's Early, that our readers may be 

 able to compai-e the general ;\ppearance 

 of the two fruits. 



EXTRACT FROM PRESIDENT 

 WILDER'S ADDRESS, 



BEFOEE THE AiTERTCAN POMOLOGTCAL SOCrETY 

 AT ITS LAST 3IEETISG. 



In former addresses, I have spoken 

 to you of the importance of the estab- 

 lishment of short, plain, and proper 

 rules, to govern the nomenclature and 

 description of our fruits, and of our 

 duty in regard to it : and I desii-e once 

 more to enforce these opinions on a 

 sul)ject which I deem of imperative im- 

 poi'tance. Our Society has been fore- 

 most in the field of reform in this work, 

 but there is much yet to be done. We 

 should have a system of rules consist- 

 ent with our science, regulated by com- 

 mon sense, and which shall avoid osten- 

 tatious, indecorous, inappropriate and 

 superfluous names. Such a code your 



