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quainted with it, and is now advancing 

 to a high state of excellence and matu- 

 rity. The best locations for vineplant- 

 ing are, undoubtedly, hi<i[h, well-drained, 

 rolling soils, gently sloping to the south. 

 If these soils are a rich wash, or are 

 made rich, and good and warm, they 

 will be every way suitable for the best 

 developmentof the plant, and the highest 

 perfection of the fruit, but it must be 

 free from all encumbering shade, and 

 well exposed to the sun, and our fruit 

 this season on such soil is perfectly 

 clean and handsome, quite free from 

 mildew and all other defects, and in 

 great quantities and variety. We have 

 the Amber, lirighton, and Delaware in 

 highest perfections, the Golden Pock- 

 lington, Jessica, Lady, Moore's Early, 

 Worden, besides Concords, Champions, 

 and Wilder, or Koger's No. 4, Hart- 

 ford, Prolific, (fee, in great profusion. 

 All these fine grapes appear to do 

 equally well on properly selected loca- 

 tions. Were it not for the timely cut- 

 ting in the spring, and consequently 

 reduction of the crop, the market pros- 

 pects would have been very dull indeed, 

 and even now the prospects are that 

 the prices may run down very low on 

 account of the general stagnation in 

 business and the consequent scarcity of 

 money. 



THE MULBERRY. 



Already some of the kind known as 

 Russian Mulberry have begun to show 

 fruit in considerable quantities. Al 

 though not very large in size it is very 

 fine and relishable in quality, and may 

 eventually become quite general and 

 Rerviceable to our people, who are very 

 fond of an early fruit for pies and tarts, 



&C. 



THE CRANBERRY, 



although indigenous to the county in 

 the low grounds, esi)ecially around Lake 

 Bur well, is not yet very largely pro- 

 duced amongst us, and solely for the 



want of proper attention. So far as I 

 know there is not a successful cran- 

 berry marah in the county, and con- 

 sequently not much of the fruit is 

 shipped, but, on the contrary, those in 

 use are imported from American and 

 other growei-s. The nut crop is not 

 good this season. — B. Gott in Globe. 



^t^ttnhks. 



OUR GARDEN. 



BT JOHM CROIL, AULT8VILLE, ONT. 



Another season gone, in so far as 

 garden opeiations are concerned, sug- 

 gests the enquiry, how has it difiisred 

 from former ones 1 " Have we spent 

 our money for that which is not bread, 

 or our labor for that which satisfieth 

 not," or has honest toil been rewarded 

 by fair returns 1 The weather on the 

 whole has been favorable, with few 

 scorching days, and a large proportion 

 of cool, pleasant ones, the former and 

 the latter rain given us in due season, 

 we look back on it as a most enjoyable 

 season. Every thing grew luxuriantly, 

 the weeds especially ; good gardener 

 he who could at any time of the season 

 boast of having them kept in subjec- 

 tion, but if the weeds grew fast so did 

 the crops. Being very much of the 

 bird at home tribe, the reader will 

 pardon our egotism, when we speak 

 only of our ain kail yard (our editor 

 must borrow friend Beadle's Scotch 

 Dictionary), we take it for granted, 

 other things being equal, our garden is 

 a sample of many around. 



We generally go sparingly into 

 novelties, having from experience 

 learned that it generally requii-es tens 

 of these to reap units of improvements, 

 but having purchased from Messrs. A. 

 C. Nellis & Co. an assortment of vege- 

 table and flower seeds, we felt bound 

 to try them. These seeds were sent 



