54 SMALL FRUITS. 



localities adjoining our inland lake bodies of water, where 

 with careful looking to no standing water in the soil, and 

 by carefully pinching back the canes for next year's bear- 

 ing, from time to time, varieties prove almost hardy. It 

 is impossible to write definite instructions for the general 

 readers, and the territory of the United States. 



Of the hardiest varieties of this class, i.e. the foreign 

 and their American seedlings, we will start with those we 

 count the best, and in the order of ripening. The Kirt- 

 land is hardy, in size almost, if not quite equal to the 

 Clarke ; is the earliest of all to ripen ; of fine quality foi 

 the table, but too soft for distant market transportation. 

 It should be in the garden of every fruit grower. 



The Clarke is not as hardy as Kirtland, nor will it bear 

 as well transportation. Next it is a question between Na- 

 omi and Knevcfs Giant, and when the product, size and 

 quality of fruit is counted. 



Naomi of which (see illustration) herewith a drawing, 

 is one that has made some noise, and whether nine hun- 

 dred and ninety-nine out of every ten hundred that have 

 been sold under this name prove Franconia is doubtful. 

 It is a distinct sort, and side by side with Franconia, of 

 which it is doubtless a seedling, it has stood the winter 

 uninjured, when its parent has killed to the ground. In 

 its general appearance it is not unlike the Franconia ; but 

 in its quality it is sweeter and richer 



Knevefs Giant, a variety of which no record seems to be 

 found in any but American works, is of acknowledged 

 foreign origin, and has, in years gone by, proved fine. 



