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one, as a dirty, unkempt arab waif 

 from the city's slums does to a bright, 

 clean, and tenderly cared-for little 

 child. Frederick Mitchell. 



Innerkip, Jan. 27th, 1886. 



GRAPES. 



I have to apologize for not answer- 

 ing your card of the l-'th December re 

 Grapes. I have removed from Bramp- 

 ton. Your card was forwarded in due 

 course but it got mislaid. 



A large variety of grapes are grown 

 around Brampton with success. My 

 own experience on clay soil was in 

 favor of Delaware, Massasoit, and 

 Clinton. Salem and Burnet mildewed 

 bad. Brighton looked well but had 

 not fruited. At the county fall fair I 

 have seen some splendid bunches of 

 Eumelan, Merrimack, and Wilder and 

 Concord. Yours truly, 



Wm. Miller. 

 Oshawa, Jan. 15th, 1886. 



STRAWBERRY GROWING. 



Mr. Editor, — I have noticed in 

 some journals lately about large crops 

 of straw ben-ies. Now, as I am only a 

 novice in raising them I thought that 

 r would give you my (experience and 

 mode of cultivating them as it is the 

 tii-st time I have ever grown them. 



In the latter part of August I 

 jtlanted one row each, 75 feet long, of 

 tlie following kinds : — Cumberland 

 Friumph, Miners, Windsor Chief, Park 

 Beauty, Vinoland, Jei-sey Queen, Charles 

 Downing and Sharpless, plants 1 foot 

 ai)art in rows 2}, feet apart. In the 

 fall when the plants were well estab- 

 lished [ manured heavily between the 

 if)ws with old rotted stable manure. 

 \fter finest I covered lightly with corn- 

 .^udks. In the following spring I cut 

 ofl' all blossoms and runners and kept 

 the ground well hoed and hand-weeded 

 tlir<)UL,di()ut. The next year I allowed 



them to make narrow matted rows. 

 The result was 402 quart baskets sold 

 at 10 cents each, and 90 quarts used 

 in the family ; 1 6 berries of the Jersey 

 Queen, Sharpless, and Miners prolific, 

 tilled several baskets. [How many 

 baskets did you fill with sixteen ber- 

 ries? — Ed.] Do you consider this a 

 good yield 1 



Youra truly, J. W M. 



Toronto. 



GOOSEBERRIES. 

 I would like to say a word respect- 

 ing the gooseberry figured in the De- 

 cember number (I88f»). I believe it 

 to be the old Crown Bob which I can 

 remember for more than thirty years, 

 and I suppose it was an old berry then. 

 I have grown it here in St. Thomas 

 for the last five yeai*s and I had berries 

 last year nearly as large and high 

 colored as shown in the picture. It 

 has never mildewed with me, but is 

 not a strong grower on my soil, though 

 very productive. 1 find the Downing 

 ahead of anything I have seen here 

 yet for flavor, size, productiveness, and 

 strong vigorous growth. I grow some 

 five or six varieties all under the same 

 conditions, get good crops every year, 

 and have never seen a particle of mil- 

 dew. 



St. Thomaa. JoHN WhitHAM. 



PARIS GREEN FOR CODLIN MOTH. 

 T tried Paris green and carbolic acid 

 on three apple trees with good results, 

 giving them three applications in three 

 weeks, the fii'st just as the blossoms 

 began to fall. One tree was the Grand 

 Sultan which had for the last four 

 years shed all the fruit but a very few 

 irregular specimens, the ground being 

 covered till near all had fallen. This 

 year they were smooth and glossy, the 

 limV)S almost breaking with fruit, and 

 not a dozen in all fell before ripe, the 

 whole crop b«»ing gathered at once. I 



