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plenty of manure and water, especially 

 in the drouth of summer, if autumn 

 blooming is expected. 



The ever blooming class comprises 

 four principal sub-classes, Noisette, Tea, 

 Bengal and Bourbon. The Noisette 

 are strong in growth, usually bearing 

 their bloom in clusters. The Bourbons 

 come nearer to the Remontants and 

 the Teas and Bengals are of more deli- 

 cate growth and generally liked in the 

 North for pot growth. None of this 

 class require excessive pruning, only 

 occasionally cutting back in out-door 

 culture. For pot cultivation plants 

 started the previous season are pre- 

 ferred. — Prairie Farmer. 



MANCHESTER STRAWBERRY. 



The Manchester, regarding which we 

 have hitherto restrained any positive 

 expression of opinion, is one of the most 

 desirable strawberries we have ever 

 raised, and we have tested not less than 

 250 different kinds. The only thing 

 that can be said against it is that it is a 

 pistillate, and must be grown near per- 

 fect-flowering sorts, which for many 

 farmers is attended with trouble or per- 

 haps inconvenience. Our plants are 

 exceedingly vigorous and productive. 

 We have just examined them and find 

 that each plant, on an average bears 

 16 peduncles or flowering stems, and 

 each flowering stem bears, on an aver- 

 age, 10 berries — giving 160 berries to a 

 plant. We beg to emphasize that we 

 are speaking of average plants. On one 

 plant we counted 22 peduncles and 220 

 berries in the various stages from ripe to 

 just set. This berry is firm, very uni- 

 form as to shape, which is roundish coni- 

 cal ; — it ripens in every part and aver- 

 ages above medium as long as it remains 

 in fruit. The quality when ripe is good, 

 though, like the Wilson, it is sour when 

 it first colors — a characteristic, it seems, 

 of all excellent market bemee. It 



npens with the Sharpless and after the 

 Bid well. On the grounds of the plain, 

 hard-working farmer, Mr. Jesse Beatty, 

 with whom it originated, it thrives in a 

 light, dry, sandy soil. With us it 

 thrives in a moist soil inclining to clay. 

 Several years ago, from our own tests, 

 we spoke highly of the Sharpless, and 

 soon after its introduction, of the Cum- 

 berland Triumph. We have never had 

 occasion to regret this, and we have now 

 little fear that we shall regret commend- 

 ing the Manchester to our readers as the 

 best market berry at present known. 

 It is now in the hands of all nurserymen 

 and will be offered at reasonaole prices 

 next Spring, if not this Fall. — Rural 

 New Yoi'ker. 



AN EXPERIMENT WITH PEAR 

 BLIGHT. 



Arba Campbell, of Oswego, N. Y., re- 

 ports to the Elmira Farmers' Club the 

 following experiment which we take 

 from the Husbandman : 



" I have a beautiful Bartlett pear tree 

 standing in the front yard by my 

 residence that is a good bearer, beautiful 

 in form, and affords a fine shade to my 

 sitting-room window. It is growing in 

 what we consider a rich, deep, gilluvial 

 soil, on the river bottom, within a few 

 rods of the river. In the heat of the 

 summer nearly four years ago when the 

 weather was very dry I discovered that 

 this tree was struck with what we call 

 ' pear blight,' and as 1 had lost two fine 

 trees at the side of the house the year 

 before from the blight, I thought all that 

 could be done was to put up with the 

 loss. A week or two later as I stood in 

 the street looking at the tree I saw that 

 the top boughs were dead down at least 

 four feet, and every limb on the tree 

 seemed more or less affected, then the 

 words of Scripture came to my mind : 

 * Dig about it and dung it one more 

 year before you cut it down.' I went 



