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kinds were better iii quality, but I do 

 not know any one at Gait except Thos. 

 Todd, who shipped to me so late in 

 November that the lot was badly frozen 

 before they reached St. John even. 

 Yours very truly, 



Charles K. Browx. 

 Yarmouth, N. S., 7th Augiist. 1884. 



CHAPTER ON GHERR1E>. 



The sea.^on for small fruits has come 

 and eone. and most sorts have made a 

 profitable return to the grower . 



The crop of strawberries was very 

 large. Prices were fair, but the hot 

 weather durintr the latter part of June 

 shortened the season. With but one or 

 two exceptions the market was never 

 glutted, and both buyers and sellers 

 seemed satisfied. 



Currants of all varieties were plentiful 

 and very good prices were obtained. 

 The same remark will apply to goose- 

 berries. Good samples fetched from $3 

 to $4 a bushel. 



Ra:^pbfirins. — The suprily was very 

 fair, but I believe so large a crop as 

 is generally raised was not forthcoming 

 this year, but there were not many op- 

 portunities fur the buyers to har(jain. 

 Those who had berries to sell asked a 

 fair price and got it, those who waited 

 till raspberries got cheaper had to go 

 without. 



Cherries. — This class of fruit seems to 

 be a very uncertain crop to raise. When 

 the cherry trees were in blossom there 

 was every indication that a good crop of 

 cherries would be had, but from some 

 cause or other the supply of good fruit 

 was very limited. 



Many of the growers of this variety of 

 fruit are very much discouraged by the 

 oontinued failure to raise a crop of good 

 cherries. I have been a large and suc- 

 cessful grower of cherries for some years 

 past, always obtaining good fruit and 

 large prices. It is now twenty years 

 ago when I first began to grow cherries. 



In getting the different varieties of trees 

 I will say that it was not ray own know- 

 ledge of which was the best to cultivate 

 that enabled me to get such a good col- 

 lection of cherries, but it is only fair to 

 give the credit to a local well-known 

 nurseryman who recommended them to 

 me, and I commenced with the following 

 varieties : — May Duke, Late Duke, 

 Early Purple Guigne, Governor Wood, 

 American Heart, Black Tartarian, Trad- 

 scant Black Heart, Black Eagle, Reine 

 Hurtenso, Napoleon Biggarreau. Early 

 Richmond, and Hutner's Yellow. Yes, 

 there was au' ther — Knight's Early 

 Black. The above lot you may con- 

 sider as a splendid assortment, and I 

 will give you my experience in cultivat- 

 ing them. 



Early Purple Gtiiijiie. — This cherry 

 is the earliest variety grown in this sec- 

 tion of Ontario, and perhaps that is its 

 great fault. The tree is hardy and a 

 free grower, a good bearer, and fruit 

 ripens about the middle of Jane. It 

 comes in about the time that the straw- 

 berry crop is in the market, and sells 

 well to the children in small quantities. 

 This tree grew with me till it got 20 ft. 

 high. The robins had been with me 

 nearly three months, and, I suppose, 

 subsisting on worms and grubs. This 

 variety of cherry being the first in the 

 season the birds go at them and devour 

 them so rapidly that very few are left 

 even of a good crop. It got to be so 

 unsatisfactory to me that I decided to 

 cut the tree duwn and get something more 

 profitable to take its place. It is an ex- 

 cellent cherry, and indispensable among 

 the early varieties; it's only fault was I 

 could not get enough of them. 



May Duki". — This is an invaluable 

 cherry, and a very popular fruit. It 

 ripens with me about the beginning of 

 July, just as strawberries are over, thus 

 bringing a good demand for it, with 

 good prices — 80c. to $1.00 a peck, 

 wholesale. With me this tree has a 



