5o The Canadian Horticulturist. 



Have settlements monthly, as collecting daily takes too much time and many 

 customers would refuse fruit because of lack of change. Supply each customer 

 with a book in which you charge, from day to day, the supplies furnished. 



Raspberries follow strawberries without a break and a steady supply is kept 

 up. I raise blackberries and red varieties, but mostly the latter. The Shaffer, 

 a purple variety, is liked by many for canning, for which purpose I know of 

 none equal, either red or black. Blackberries have been a failure more often 

 than a success, and I do not raise them, but as the grower has the market or a 

 good list of customers looking to him for their supplies, he should make the 

 marketing continuous until the last of the winter's fruit is sold. Those varieties 

 should be planted that give a succession, and leave no break in the season. 



Follow the berries and currants with grapes, plums, peaches and 

 apples. Quite a demand for grapes was made by mixing the black, red and 

 white together in the same box. When the grower is in daily contact with 

 the consumers it is possible to experiment in many such ways to tickle 

 the palates and please the fancies of the customers by combining and arranging 

 the various supplies in many such Avays. The grower should be a storehouse 

 of knowledge as to the various ways of canning, preserving and making 

 jellies and marmalades of the various fruits, and be prepared at all times 

 to supply the demand that his energy and watchfulness creates. — Farm and 

 Home. 



STAMP OUT THE BLACKBERRY RUST. 



Blackberry and raspberry anthracnose, or rust, is produced on the canes in 

 the form of small round or elongated whitish patches, slightly flattened and 

 bordered with a ring of dark purple. These patches gradually increase in size 

 and number, and finally destroy the new growth or stunt it badly. Upon the 

 leaves it is often visible as very small yellowish spots surrounded by a dark 

 border, resembling those on the canes and leaves. The fungus producing the 

 disease passes the winter in the diseased canes and leaves, a fresh crop of spores 

 is produced from the old spots in the spring, and the new canes and foliage are 

 readily affected. 



The raspberry anthracnose soon becomes deeply seated in the canes, and 

 no fungicide can reach it. The disease can be greatly retarded by cutting out 

 and burning all diseased wood. It should be cut out in winter or very early 

 spring, below the lowest diseased spot. If the canes are then sprayed before 

 the leaves start, with a solution of sulphate of copper, using one lb. to 25 gals, 

 water, and if necessary sprayed two or three times during the summer with 

 Bordeaux mixture, very little damage is to be feared. — Farm and Home. 



Si Hosack : " How brown an' yaller the sun is settin' to day." Liz 

 Francis : " Yes ; it looks for all th' world like one of mother's punkin pies ! " — 

 Life. 



