56 SMALL FRUITS. 



Belle du Paluan is another foreigner of good show. 

 All speak its praise, but from what we have known of it the 

 canes are not hardy, and therefore the public as a public, 

 the growers all over the country, will not have it. 



The Hudson River Red Antwerp, is so often written of 

 by journals, and as nearly every town has heard of it, it 

 is needless to write, more than to say, that on deep rich 

 soil, laid loose and lightly covered in winter, it is product- 

 ive, and one of the best in every respect. Franconia is 

 an old variety, large fruit, deep purplish red and pro- 

 ductive. 



Herstine is one of recent production, an abundant 

 bearer of large fruit. 



The Highland Hardy, Brandywine and Turner's Seed- 

 ling are among a large lot of new named varieties. Their 

 value must be learned by years of cultivation in varied 

 locations. Of the late or autumnal varieties of foreign 

 origin, the Belle de Fontenay is one of the best, but has a 

 strong tendency to sucker, and the grower must destroy a 

 large portion of them in its cultivation. 



A word in favor of Belle de Fontenay, a variety that 

 because of its disposition to sucker freely has been 

 almost discarded. By or from pure contrariness, a 

 man in the writer's employ, three years since, in 

 hoeing, cut away in spring all the suckers ; and so all 

 summer, when hoeing, he would let but one or two grow, 

 cutting away all others as weed?. The result was a good 

 crop of fruit not only on the canes of the previous year, 

 but on those of the same season's growth ; and repeating 



