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price, and wlio ilare imagine when there ever will be an over-pro- 

 duction of good strawberries and cream? 



The gooseberry and currant are two of our neglected yet highly 

 meritorious small fruits. Since learning how easily they may be met 

 and fought with a two gallon sprinkler and a teaspoon ful of white 

 hellebore stirred in the sprinkler full of water, there can be no good 

 reason why their cultivation will not increase. While Maine may 

 never grow grapes for market, there is no reason why every farmer 

 and every villager may not raise an abundant supply for their own 

 use. 



The cherry of the "Black-Heart" variety is as easily grown and as 

 hard^' as the wild cherry of our waste lands. They are easily and 

 rapidly grown from seed, come into bearing in a few years, and the 

 child always closely resembles the parent. The trees live to a great 

 age, and continue bearing annual crops generation after generation. 

 The Rev. Charles A. Cone brought the "Black-Hearts" into this 

 vicinity, from the Vaughau estate at Hallowell, years ago, and has 

 some splendid trees, and there are also some grand trees on a place 

 here where he formerl}' lived. Others incited by his precept and 

 example have raised and are raising fine trees. The -'Black-Heart" 

 grafts kindl3' into the wild cherry, and forms a very good tree if 

 grafted in the limbs. 



Altogether the present condition and future prospect of fruit cul- 

 ture in Sagadahoc is encouraging. Each bearing year larger quan- 

 tities of winter apples are called for and sold out of its borders, and 

 car load after car lead is loaded at our stations and shipped to Eng- 

 land, some of which doubtless find their way to the Queen's table, 

 by the way of Queenstown. 



Bowdoinham. 



