74 MY GARDEN WHAT FRUITS WERE CULTIVATED. 



by a judicious selection of soil and exposure. 

 Place the Davidson's Thornless in a warm, sunny 

 spot with a light soil, the Doolittles in the open 

 garden, and the Mammoth Cluster in a cool, 

 moist, and somewhat shaded position, and the 

 canny cultivator has Blackcaps for a month, in- 

 stead of merely little over a week, by the growth 

 of only one variety. 



I had in bearing in '71, one row of the Thorn- 

 less, one hundred and eighty feet long ; three 

 rows of the Doolittles, one hundred and eighty- 

 five feet long ; and two rows of the Mammoth 

 Clusters, one hundred and seventy-six feet 

 long ; also a row of one hundred feet of the 

 wild Blackcaps of the woods, which I have 

 since dug up and thrown away. There were 

 also some bushes of the Seneca and Miami 

 vaiieties, which not doing very well with me, 

 shared the same fate. From these seven rows 

 and a few scattered bushes besides, fourteen 



