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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



span-worms. Otliei- cities, Boston, 

 Philadelphia, &c., followed suit, with 

 equally favorable results. 



Simon Roy. 

 Berlin, 5th -Jan., 1885. 



SMALL FRUITS. 



(For the Canadian Horticidturist.) 



Some of our friends often ask us is 

 the growing of small fruits profitable? 



In reply we say," Yes," under cei-tain 

 conditions. 



There are two kinds of mistakes 

 which people make whei^ they begin 

 the cultivation of small fruit. 



One is to devote the entire attention 

 to one kind, and the other is to attempt 

 the cultivation of too many kinds. If 

 we have only one kind under cultiva- 

 tion, and that kind fails (as the straw- 

 berry did nearly so last season owing 

 to the frost ip. the latter end of May 

 last), we are in a bad fix. The secret 

 of profitable small fruit culture is to 

 provide a succession of crops, then the 

 income will be steady, and some of the 

 necessary things about the business, 

 which cost money, can be in steady use. 

 Really profitable and reasonably sure 

 small fruit culture, we see therefore, 

 will be found in strawberries, rasp- 

 berries, goosberries, currants and black- 

 berries. 



As to the varieties of the different 

 fruits to be cultivated, it will depend 

 altogether on the market. The indi- 

 vidual taste of the grower has nothing 

 to do with it. He is growing fruit for 

 profit ; he is growing it for othei*s to 

 buy and eat, and he must satisfy them, 

 and, too, he must regai'd the shipping 

 quality of his fruit. I have seen fruit 

 shipped to St. Mary's Market, and you 

 could track the express waggon from 

 the station to the store, the juice run- 

 ning from the crates. A good shipping 

 variety, although it does not biing so 

 so much in price in the market as 

 some other variety, is, of course, better 



to grow than a variety which is really 

 superior otherwise, but will be worth- 

 less by the time it reaches the con- 

 sumer. The main point in all market- 

 able things is, the better it looks the 

 better it will sell ; and this is true in re- 

 gard to the small fruits, the better it 

 looks the better it will sell. The public 

 know nothing about quality, species, 

 and colour that people are after. Those 

 about to engage in small fruit culture 

 in the spring, should decide on a suffi- 

 cient number to last through the sea- 

 son, and next select varieties the 

 market demands, keeping in view their 

 shipping qualities and productiveness. 



If spared, my next paper will be my 

 experience in these varieties. 



Fish Creek. JoHN Little. 



PLUM CUKCULIO. 



Mr. Editor, — I have been a mem- 

 ber of the Fruit-Growers' Association 

 for a number of years, and have had 

 the benefit of many writers. 



As I have read so many requests to 

 write experience of any fruits or vege- 

 tables, I venture to contribute my mite. 



I read on page six of your monthly, 

 of 188."), what Mr. Johnston Eaton, of 

 Pennsylvania, writes about his experi- 

 ence with plum trees ; he says " take 

 sulphur and smoke the trees once a 

 week for two months." Now, Sir, 

 I raise good crops of plums each alter- 

 nate year. The way I do, I take air- 

 slacked lime when the plum ti'ees are 

 in full bloom. When the bloom begins 

 to fall, in the morning, when the dew 

 is on the trees, make the trees white 

 with the lime ; three times in two 

 weeks is plenty, or when you think 

 proper. 



CABBAGE WORM. 



Last year, 1884, I have grown the 

 best cabbage for years. My experience 

 is to take air-slacked lime when the 

 worm is eating the cabbage, an<l also 



