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it take root. It roots almost more 

 easily than any other Hybrid Per- 

 petual, and grows far better on its 

 own roots than when budded on 

 Manetti, a stock on which (like most 

 of the smooth-wooded roses) it will 

 not long succeed unless it is planted 

 deep enough to be able to send out 

 roots of its own from the collar. 



Since writing the above we have 

 received the following lines from Mr. 

 Fred. Mitchell, on the "John Hopper" 

 rose: — 



" 'John Hopper,' the rose selected 

 for distribution the coming spring, is 

 not a new variety, but is a variety of 

 such general all round merit that it 

 is worthy of better acquaintance, and 



more general cultivation. In Britain 

 and throughout Europe, wherever 

 roses are grown, it has long been 

 known as a reliable standard sort ; 

 it was raised twenty-seven years ago 

 by Ward, of Ipswich, England, 

 from seed from ' Jules Margettin' 

 another good standard variety. It 

 is of good form, and of a bright deep 

 rose color, generally deepest in the 

 centre. The foliage is large and 

 healthy -looking, and the growth 

 strong and stubby. It is a very eas- 

 ily managed rose, and in short has 

 but one fault, and that is its very 

 objectionable incongruous name so 

 utterly unsuited to a daintily beauti- 

 ful rose." 



SEASONABLE HINTS FOR FRUIT GROWERS. 



PROFITS OF FRUIT CULTURE. 



BEGINNERS in fruit culture 

 need to be warned against 

 being carried away by such state- 

 ments as the following, which may 

 be true in certain exceptional cases, 

 and false in the majority. 



(i.) It is possible to raise $500 to $600 

 worth of cherries from a single acre in one 

 season. 



(2 ) Strawberries are very profitable, 

 paying at the rate of $700 per acre, using 

 Crescent and James Vick two to one. 

 Raspberries come next after strawberries. 

 By planting such varieties as Tyler, Hopkins 

 and Ohio, cutting back heavily and giving 

 good cultivation, at least two thousand 

 quarts per acre can be obtained, which sell 

 for 15c. a quart. The cost of cultivating 

 will not exceed $50 per acre, and the picking 

 and marketing $50 more ; two thousand 

 quarts is only an average crop, and this 

 would give a profit of $200 per acre. 



{3.) Strawberries should yield 4,000 

 quarts per acre, raspberries 3,000, black- 

 berries a little more than raspberries, and 

 currants should yield 1,500 to 2,000 quarts 

 per acre. 



(4.) An acre of strawberries will some- 

 times pay better than live acres of grain. 



These may be possibilities, but 

 not probabilities, except where all 

 conditions are most favorable. To 

 those of us who are in the business, 

 it is no doubt an incentive to greater 

 zeal and industry to read of the pos- 

 sibilities that lie before us ; but we 

 should give both sides of the picture, 

 and sometimes show the losses that 

 are just as frequent as such fine pro- 

 fits. Twenty years ago the writer 

 was led away by golden dreams, the 

 outcome of such reading. Easily 

 reckoning that if one acre in fruit 

 culture should yield $500, ten acres 

 would give ten times as much, and 

 so on, he planted his whole farm to 

 fruit, expecting, of course, some such 

 proportion of profit ; and that if the 

 hundred acres did not yield $50,000 



