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six clean acres would be better, if well fenced. 

 I have spent all my money, and earned no- 

 thing. I borrow the dollar I send. --Samuel 

 I'KDIJLE, Whitichtirch, Out. 



Had our correspondent followed the advice 

 of this journal, he would not ha\e left a good 

 trade to engage in fruit culture. To succeed 

 in any line one must have a thorough know- 

 ledge of it, and it would be a marvel if any 

 person in these days of close competition, 

 coukl make money in fruit culture without 

 any previous training in the business. Would 

 our friend advise a farmer to leave his farm 

 and try to make a fortune at cabinet making ? 

 No more do we think that a tradesman 

 should leave his trade, and e.\pect to make 

 money in fruit gardening without either 

 capital, or knowledge of the business. -Editor. 



Digging- Up Strawberry Beds 



I OBSEKVE that it is generally recommended 

 to dig up strawberry plants after they are 

 one or two years old. I have a strawberry 

 bed 16 years old, and they bear just as well 

 now as ever they did. — W. W. R., Toronto, 

 A/^ril, 1889. 



Fruit in Lanark Co 



Sir, — Pressure of business has prevented 

 me from acknowledging my premium " Win- 

 ter St. Lawrence" apple tree, and the copy 

 of the Ont. F. G. Ass'n Report for 18.SS, both 

 of which I fully appreciate. The little tree 

 is in full leaf and growing nicely. Small 

 fruits, viz., strawberries, gooseberries, and 

 currants promise great abundance of fruit 



this year. Some of my bushes are pictures 

 of plenty, being bent to the ground already 

 with their growing burden. I'lums are a 

 small crop ; apples also, except Alexanders, 

 which with me are fully loaded. Caterpillars 

 are very numerous and they are attacking 

 forest trees as well as fruit trees ; this pest is 

 becoming a serious one and will be hard to 

 keep in check if the race continues to in- 

 crease as it has done during the last few years. 

 In this vicinity we have so far escaped late 

 spring frost, and vegetation is very much ad- 

 vanced, in fact the growth has been quite 

 phenomenal. The weather is at present wet 

 and chilly, and there is still danger of a 

 damaging frost, barring which there is likely 

 to be plenty in the land. — W. H. Wvme, 

 Carlcton Place, May 28, iSSg 



The Crandall Currant 



Your Postal at hand. Rather late to plant 

 the Crandall, but we mail you a plant, well 

 cut back, that may grow, also a twig of green 

 fruit that will show something of its product- 

 iveness. 



The cut of Crandall please keep. We may 

 order it sent to some other paper sometime. 

 The Crandall is now a wonder to behold, 

 with its load of quarter-grown fruit bending 

 the bushes to the ground. — Frank Ford & 

 Sons, Ravenna, Ohio. 



'The branch of currants is certainly an 

 object of great interest, being loaded heavily 

 with fruit of a promising appearance. We 

 have planted the bush in our testing grounds, 

 and will report as soon as possible concern- 

 ing its value for Canadians. — Editor.] 



OUR FRUIT MARKETS. 



Montreal 



Applts. — The season for old apples is now 

 about over, with the dumping grounds full 

 of their remains. May our dealers never see 

 the like again. It will not be long before 

 new apples in crates will make their appear- 

 ance from the South, Bankers in the West, it 

 is said, took a greater interest in the apple 

 market last year than ever before in their 

 lives. Their connection with it, howe\er, 

 will not contribute anything towards their 

 dividends. 



Stran'birrics. — Supplies from New York 

 fair, with sales at 20c to 25c per quart. — May 

 24, '89. 



Representatives for Montreal houses are 

 already making arrangements down in Ten- 

 nessee for securing the product of some of 



the earliest orchards. It will therefore not 

 be long before the first shipments of the new 

 crop of apples are received. 



Striiu'birriis.—.\ new feature in the mar- 

 ket was the arrival of Chicago berries at the 

 beginning of the week, which sold down to 

 loc and iic per quart by the case. Receipts 

 of New York berries are larger, with sales at 

 i2c to 15c per (juart. Great damage is said 

 to have been done Canadian strawberries, 

 but dealers think the injury has been exag- 

 gerated. 



Cherries. — California " black hearts " have 

 met with fair encjuiry, with sale? at S3 50 

 per box. The fruit is very fine and tempt- 

 ing. 



Apricots. — :The first lots of California fruit 

 came to hand this week in very goi.d mn- 



