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large scarlet berries to the expanded 

 V)lossoins. The fruit arms were over 

 two feet long, and fruited all along, 

 some having eight clusters of fruit 

 each. The canes were fruited to the 

 terminal bud. I confess it was a most 

 attractive sight to any fruit grower, 

 and the visitors were most enthusiastic 

 in its praise. Mr. Nathaniel Hallock 

 who lirst began the raspberry business 

 on the Hudson nearly forty years ago, 

 and who is now over eighty years of 

 age, said this show of fruit exceeded 

 L anything he had ever seen of the Hud- 

 I son River Antwerp in its best days. 

 He said if the berries would grow like 

 that an acre of them would produce 

 about $ 2, 000 in a single year. Another 

 gentleman who was present, was after- 

 wards seen in earnest conversation aside 

 with the originator; and Mr. Cay wood 

 afterward informed me that he had 

 been pei-suaded to put his price upon 

 his stock of the Marlboro Raspberry, 

 and had given the gentleman the fii-st 

 refusal. Of course, it has never yet 

 been disseminated. — H. Hendricks, in 

 Rural New Yorker. 



The Editor adds : — From what we 

 have seen and known of this splendid 

 variety, we freely subscribe to the above. 

 But it must be borne in mind, that it 

 has not been tested away from the 

 favorable place of its origin. 



PARSNIPS. 



One of the greatest pleasures the pro- 

 prietor of a garden has,is the satisfaction 

 of knowing that he has at his command 

 an abundant and varied supply of vege- 

 tables at all seasons of the year. In 

 the summer he has an extensive list to 

 choose from, but in the winter and early 

 spring months his choice is confined to 

 a limited number of varieties, and on 

 this account these crops should be of the 

 very first quality. To obtain this 

 desired object it is absolutely necessary 

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to give the crops, during their season 

 of growth, every essential attention. 



The Parsnip is one of the most desir- 

 able, as well as most wholesome, of 

 winter and s[)ring vegetables, and should 

 be cultivated in all gardens, however 

 small. It flourishes best, and produces 

 the largest, longest and smoothest roots 

 when grown quickly, in a very rich, 

 deep soil, for, if fresh manure is given, 

 the roots will become forked ; or, if the 

 seeds are sown in a shallow or poor 

 soil, the roots will be of small size, 

 tough, forked, and almost worthless. 



The best and easiest method of ob- 

 taining a satisfactory crop is to prepare 

 the ground thoroughly the previous 

 season. This should be done by plowing 

 or digging the ground very deep, and 

 at the same time working-in an abun- 

 dance of well decomposed stable manure 

 in which a quantity of bone-dust has 

 been mixed. If at all possible, let the 

 ground be thrown up in ridges through- 

 out the winter, and as soon as the 

 ground is in working condition in the 

 spring, a good sprinkling of guano, or 

 hen manure should be given, the ground 

 neatly leveled, and the seed sown in 

 drills from eighteen inches to two feet 

 apart. The seed should be covered to 

 the depth of three-quartei^s of an inch, 

 and as soon as the young plants are 

 from three to four inches in height they 

 should be thinned out to a distance of 

 six or eight inches apart. All the care 

 and attention they require after this is 

 to be well cultivated and kept free from 

 weeds at all times. 



The roots are perfectly hardy, and 

 are very much improved by leaving 

 them in the ground during the winter, 

 care being taken to bring enough in 

 the cellar to last during the cold wea- 

 ther. The roots require to be covered 

 with sand when placed in the cellar, 

 thus preventing them from becoming 

 dry. One ounce of seed will sow 



