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a very heavy crop, with correspondingly low prices. Other 

 fruits and berries have given fair to good yields, and brought 

 average prices. On the whole, our horticulturists should not 

 complain. Of the 149 correspondents answering the ques- 

 tion as to profits, 80 consider the season to have been a 

 profitable one, 20 an average season for profit, 13 fairly 

 profitable, while (5 think that it has been above the avemge 

 for profit and 30 that it has not been a profitable one. 



