SMALL FRUITS. 



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The secret of jelly making seems to con- 

 sist in boiling it exactly the right length of 

 time, which can only be determined by ex- 

 perience. Any reliable cook book furnishes 

 satisfactory recipes for all the above. The 

 fruit may also be preserved without sugar 

 by the addition of some preservative, such 

 as salicylic acid, but the result is unwhole- 

 some. 



Small Fruits in the Orchard 



u AN easily grown small fruit crop is 

 t\ the blackberry," said W. H. Gib- 

 son, of Newcastle, recently to The Horticul- 

 turist. " I have an acre of the Snider 

 variety which last year yielded 7,000 quarts. 

 The year before the yield was nearly as 

 large. These bushes have been bearing for 

 four or five years and were planted about 

 eight years ago. The berries realized five 

 to six cents per quart. 



" T obtain women to pick the berries, pay- 



ing them 134 cents per box. A good picker 

 picks 100 boxes in a day. These bushes 

 are growing in a young apple orchard. 

 Owing to the size of some of the bushes I 

 was unable to spray the apple trees last year, 

 and on that account many of tne apples were 

 wormy. In that portion of the orchard 

 where I was able to spray not one out of 

 every 100 apples was injured by the worms. 

 This led me to remove one row of bushes 

 this year between every two rows of apple 

 trees to permit of spraying. Blackberries 

 are more profitable to grow in a young or- 

 chard than almost any other crop I know. 



A Remedy for Aphis 



What is an effective spray for aphis in field 

 nurseries? The insect is on the under side of 

 leaves on new growth. Dipping the branches 

 in emulsion is too slow. — (W. C. Archibald & 

 Sons, Wolfville, N.' S. 



Replying to this question Mr. W. T. Ma- 

 coun, of the Experimental Farm at Ottawa, 



Melons Grown at the Central Experimental Farm. 



Although Ottawa is not in a melon growing di .trict. it has been necessary for the Central Experimental Farm to test allthe varieties 

 of melons on the market in order to find out which will succeed best in districts where the climatic conditions are the same as in Ottawa. 

 About 100 varieties of musk melons have been tested. From a large number a few early ripening varieties ot good quality have been found 

 to be worthy of general cultivation. A group of these melons are here shown, including Burpee's Netted Gem, Hackensack, Emerald Gem 

 and Montreal Market. The latter is a fine variety, but a little late unless fcrced. The farm report concerning these different melons is an 

 interesting one. 



