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boil up once ; then pour into your fruit 

 jar. "When cold, tie or paste a thick 

 paper over the top, and set where it is 

 dry and cool. 



Spiced Grapes. — Get ready 5 B) 

 of fruit, 4 5) of sugar, 2 tablespoon- 

 fuls each of cinnamon and mace, and 1 

 pt. of the best vinegar. Boil the sugar, 

 spices and vinegar together about one 

 hour, or until thick. Heat the grapes 

 and rub through a colander. Add the 

 syrup to the fruit, and let it boil up 

 once. 



Currant Preserves. — To each lb 

 of fruit, add one S) of good white 

 sugar, and set it on the stove. Let 

 it come to a boil ; skim out the cur- 

 rants, and boil the syrup down till it 

 will make jelly ; put back the fruit, 

 and dip into bowls. When cold, paste 

 paper wet with white of egg over the 

 top, and set away. 



Crab-Apple Marmalade. — Boil the 

 apples in a kettle till soft, with just 

 enough water to cover them. Mash 

 and strain through a colander ; then to 

 a pound of fruit take three-fourths of 

 a pound of sugar, and boil half an hour. 

 — Susan Busybee, in Country Gentle- 



HARDY PEACHES. 



In such portions as are favorable to 

 the growth and bearing of the peach, 

 we have not discovered much difference 

 in the endurance in winter of the dif- 

 ferent varieties, the temperature rarely 

 passing lower than 1 2° below zero. As 

 the shoots of most of the sorts are never 

 winter-killed, no material difference can 

 be seen in the hardiness of the varieties. 

 But in many places at the West, where 

 the growth is more luxuriant, the ripen- 

 ing of the young wood not so perfect, 

 and where the thermometer often sinks 

 to 20° below zero, the case is different. 

 D. B. Wier, of the Prairie Farmer, 

 says the past winter was very useful to 

 the fruit-grower in indicating hardy 



sorts for future propagation. He men- 

 tions two well-known peaches, both 

 great favorites, known as Crawford's 

 Early and Oldmixon Free. The Craw- 

 ford is large, handsome and popular, 

 and sells at the highest price, but the 

 tree and fruit buds are easily injured 

 by severe cold. The Oldmixon, although 

 not so large and handsome, bears in that 

 State four bushels of fruit to one borne 

 by the Crawford, and notwithstanding 

 the former sells at a lower price, it gives 

 the grower twice as much money tree 

 for tree. The Crawford bears well in 

 good seasons when prices generally are 

 down, and the Oldmixons sell at much 

 higher prices in scarce years than the 

 Crawfords in the plentiful seasons when 

 they bear. For this reason it is recom- 

 mended in all localities where this differ- 

 ence occurs, as the most profitable and 

 worthy of more extensive planting. — 

 Country Gentleman. 



BLACK RASPBERRIES. 

 We expect to add to our raspberry 

 plantation by setting out this fall 

 twenty-five acres more of black caps, 

 and these will be in about the follow- 

 ing proportions : Three acres in Thorn- 

 less, five acres Tyler, five acres Mam- 

 moth Cluster, twelve acres Gregg. 

 This gives good pickings, first to last. 

 The Davidson Thornless are so very 

 early that we get twelve to fifteen 

 cents per quart for bulk of crop. The 

 Tyler is very near as early, and yields 

 larger and a much longer crop, taking 

 the place of the Doolittle — which sort 

 is so much afliected by the rust the 

 country over. The Tyler is a rank 

 grower, and has never shown rust with 

 us ; and were we to be confined to but 

 two black raspbemes for market pur- 

 poses, we should choose Tyler and Gregg 

 — though the Mammoth Cluster is 

 needed to fill in well between the two, 

 as the Tyler is about gone when the 



