Among the Berries. 6g 



figure, low enough for general cultivation, it must come into extensive 

 demand. 



A third candidate for public favor is the Kittatinny, also found growing 

 wild in New Jersey, and also taken by careful hands to the garden, where 

 its merits have been ascertained, and certified to, by those who ought to be 

 competent judges. I am growing it to some extent, but have no personal 

 experience of its value. 



Other dawning wonders in the blackberry field are already beginning to 

 lift their glossy heads above the horizon. This heretofore-neglected berry, 

 having latterly taken its place among horticultural staples, is attracting the 

 attention of hundreds of acute and persevering seekers after fresh novel- 

 ties. Its commercial value has been satisfactorily determined. It fully 

 equals the raspberry in productiveness, and, as a general rule, fir outstrips 

 the strawberr\^ In this section, where the two great city-markets are within 

 a few hours' reach of us, the profit from a well-managed acre will pay for 

 the fee of the land annually. A gentleman within two miles of me, by 

 way of interesting his son (a young lad) in agricultural pursuits, gave him 

 the free use of an acre to cultivate as he pleased. The shrewd boy located 

 a half-acre on one side of his father's barn-yard, and the other on the oppo- 

 site side. He could thus trundle out a dozen barrow-loads of manure upon 

 his ground whenever so disposed. He planted his acre in Lawton Black- 

 berries ; cultivated them himself; and, last year, his gross sales of fruit 

 amounted to six hundred dollars. The year preceding, his clear profit from 

 the same acre was four hundred and fifty dollars. I have walked througli 

 this magnificent creation of juvenile care and shrewdness, and must confess 

 that no engineering of my own in the same line has been able to equal it. 

 The contents of the convenient barn-yard told powerfully on the canes, but 

 more powerfully on the quantity and quality of the fruit. The fee of the 

 land, though in the best location, was much less valuable than the annual 

 crop. Within gunshot of this field are ten acres of the same berry, which 

 last year yielded a net profit of four thousand two hundred dollars, — more 

 than the land would sell for. 



The father of the lad referred to was engaged in mercantile business in 

 Philadelphia ; but he had never realized such profits as he thus saw his 

 enterprising son to be annually securing. The example set before him by 



