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food except, perhaps, the great staples of the west, which 

 alone bear transportation. At Ravenswood we looked into 

 a garden where raspberries are grown by the acre four or 

 five acres, we should say, in a plat not for fruit, but to 

 sell the plants to others, at $70 or 880 a thousand, the de 

 mand being greater than the owner could supply. Within 

 the same inclosure is an acre or two of rhubarb, which, 

 grown as a crop on several farms on Long Island, yields 

 8500 an acre. 



&quot; There are also a great number of sample vines started 

 as stocks for cutting, and to show what is the quality of 

 the fruit of those two new and very superior grapes, the 

 Delaware and Rebecca. The cuttings are all started in 

 thumb pots, in forcing-houses in the winter, and as they 

 make roots, successively removed into larger and larger 

 pots, until there is a mass of fibrous roots filling a gallon 

 pot, which gives a rapid growth to the vine when set out, 

 which buyers greatly prefer to the slower growth obtained 

 from cuttings set in the open ground. The owner is profit 

 ably working land that is worth at least $1,000 an acre for 

 building lots. 



&quot; Next to his grounds we visited those of a grower of 

 the new cherry currant. But, excellent as that is, he is 

 not satisfied without an attempt to get a better one, and so 

 he has 2,000 seedlings a year old, grown from seeds of the 

 very largest of the fine ones at present grown. Of these, 

 2,000 plants were grown with much labor, requiring the 

 care and attention of the planter for three years before he 

 can obtain and prove the fruit. He may be rewarded with 

 one choice new seedling, and cast the other nineteen hun 

 dred and ninety-nine into the fire, or he may not get even 

 that single one. It is a great labor to grow seedlings until 

 one is obtained better than the original, yet some one must 

 persevere in such labor, or we should never have the choice 



