The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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growth of very hard wood, so tliat opinion, we have no other currant 

 the borer fails to penetrate them. that ecpials tliem in quality., proline- 



Anil here let nie say that, in my tivciuss and hmii/y. 



THE EARLIEST PAY THE BEST. 



Hv K. IC. Slmmkv, La Sai.lk, N.Y. 



Tl I E above assertion none, doubt- 

 less, will dispute. During ten 

 years' experience in gardening, while 

 generalK' successful in the early vege- 

 table line, }'et our constant study 

 was to get %mall fruits in the market 

 aheatl of the main crop, and we ob- 

 tained plants of many varieties, 

 among them being a raspberry and 

 a strawberry, which, after a two 

 years' acquaintance, we find fills the 

 bill. Thompson's Early Prolific Red 

 Raspberry and the Haverland Straw- 

 berry equal many of the older ones 

 as to quality ; are early, extremely 

 productive, and stood the severe 

 drouths of 18S7-8 — the best of man\- 

 sorts. These points counted with 

 us, and likely do the same with 

 other growers. 



M. T. Thompson, of Lakewood, 

 Ont., is fortunate in having dissemin- 

 ated two such valuable plants. The 

 Haverland resembles the Crescent in 

 habit, and also has imperfect flowers 

 (Mav King being used as a fertilizer), 

 but is much more vigorous and pro- 

 ductixe. witli better flavor, nearly as 



early as Covill's Early, but larger. 

 Numerous correspondents have at- 

 tested to its being adapted to a great 

 variety of soils and climate, among 

 whom is Matthew Crawford, the 

 celebrated expert, who writes that 

 on a row sixteen feet long and six 

 inches wide he picked at one time 

 four-and-a-half quarts, and adds that 

 he has never seen any variety that 

 would surpass it. Of the fruit, many 

 specimens were nearly two inches 

 long, ripens all over a bright red, and 

 yields more of a crop on spring set 

 plants than any other. 



The Early Prolific is a robust 

 grower, standing our drouth excel- 

 lently, and friends in the South say 

 that it appears to be of special value 

 in that hot section. This berry has 

 riponed perfectly, while in the same 

 the Gregg dried upon the bushes, 

 several acres not yielding a bushel of 

 ripe fruit. It has not been injured 

 by 22^ below zero, and has come in 

 a full week ahead of the Hansell 

 with fine fruit, just as the straw- 

 berries were over. 



HINTS ON GRAPE CULTURE. 



^"^HE following hints on this sub- 

 ject by Lewis Roesch, of Fre- 

 tlonia, N.Y., are seasonable and 

 worthv of the attention of our readers : 



pends for success on the same condi- 

 tions as ordinary farming. These 

 are mainly liberal fertilizing, a care- 

 ful preparation of ground, proper 

 care and culture at the right time. 



Grape and small fruit culture de- and a judicious selection of varieties 



