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We have never taken off more than the two crops, a third might pay if weeds 

 and grass did not get in too much. I have followed this plan for six or seven 

 years, and think it the best plan for my soil (a light clay loam with a more or 

 less porous subsoil ; though in one or two cases I removed the hay before 

 ploughing. 



By planting i^ to 2 acres each spring, we have 3 to 4 acres in fruit each 

 season, and get a large quantity of fine berries. In the summer of 1892 we 

 ploughed under, instead of cleaning out our fruiting bed, so last season only had 

 2^ acres of new bed ; but in spite of a drought which cut off the last end of 

 the crop, we sold 16,600 boxes ; this does not include any that were used in the 

 house, or what was eaten by from 30 to 50 pickers daily, which would be over 

 1,000 quarts more. 



I intended to say something about varieties, but as I have already spun out 

 too long, will stop for this time. 



Arkofia, Out. J. H. Hilborn. 



Mulberries for the Home Garden.— If a family had no other kind of 



fruit than the mulberry, it would, no doubt, be highly valued and duly appre- 

 ciated, but where the mulberries will thrive, other and better kinds can certainly 

 be raised in abundance ; so, with this fact in mind, I would say to all who own 

 a garden, plant a mulberry tree or two if you wish, for the children and birds, 

 but other and better kinds for your table and for sale, if there is a surplus 

 beyond the home demand. The trouble with the best of the mulberries is the 

 difificulty in gathering, as the berries ripen very unevenly, only one here and 

 there on a twig or large branch, compelling the picker to go all over the head of 

 even a large tree to get a few pints or quarts at a time, and when gathered each 

 berry has a woody fruit stalk attached, which forms a gcod handle for eating the 

 berries out of hand, but if there is any stewing or cooking to be done these fruit 

 stalks must be removed with scissors or knife, and the housewife or cook finds 

 this a slow and irksome task in preparing the fruit for use. Of all the numerous 

 varieties I have tested I like the Downing best, because it is of the largest size 

 and has a rich, sub-acid, sprightly flavor, somewhat like that of a well-ripened 

 blackberry. — Am. Agriculturist. 



Growing Tuberoses. — The following simple method of growing tuberoses 

 has been found successful : Keep them in paper bags in a cool place till May, 

 then plant them in good soil in the garden. There they grow steadily and 

 hardily, producing stout flower spikes till the autumn when the plants are taken 

 up and potted. Plants thus treated grow rapidly, twelve to twenty blooms on 

 a stem, and afford a valuable supply for cutting for an. unusually long period. 



