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new set of crops at once. He shonld 

 determine to grow those things that 

 pay the best, and to gradually work into 

 a more profitable kind of farming. 

 Those who propose to do this, will find 

 sweet corn and potatoes excellent crops 

 to begin with. Others will pay better, 

 but these are best to prepare the land 

 for other and more profitable crops. 

 It would have been better had the land 

 been prepared for these last fall, but as 

 this was not done, make it ready as soon 

 as it is safe to work it. — American 

 Agriculturist. 



THE CONCORD AND OTHER GRAPES. 



Newport, Vermont, is in about the 

 same latitude as Kingston, but without 

 the ameliorating influenee of the water 

 which Kingston enjoys. Doctor Hos- 

 kins writes to the Rural New Yorker 

 as follows : — 



" Here the Concord ripens about once in 

 five years, while the Salem is fit to eat 

 every year, and ripens well two years in 

 three. Salem lias one advantage over 

 most grapes, in being quite eatable before 

 it is ripe. But I begin to think both 

 Merrimack and Massasoit would have been 

 preferred to Salem if they had become 

 well known sooner. They are both a little 

 earlier than Salein. But our earliest good 

 grape is Brighton. If it would keep like 

 the three Rodgers' grapes named, I would 

 grow that only. Long-keeping gi-apes are 

 as valuable as long-keeping apples, and 

 that is where Vergennes takes ' the whole 

 bakery;' but it is too late here." 



GREGG RASPBERRY. 

 Piirdij's Fruit Recorder says of this 

 black raspberry : — " This year's experi- 

 ence has satisfied us that there is no 

 black raspberry grown in this section, 

 and especially on our grounds, that will 

 yield equal to, and such uniform large 

 berries, as the Gregg. Our pickers can 

 pick, on an avei-age, the season through, 

 two quarts of them to one and one- 

 fourth quarts of any other sort, and the 



reason for this is they hold out large to 

 the last picking, and, too, withstand 

 drouth better than any other sort. 

 Show us where an acre (we don't mean 

 an acre estimate by a few rods' yield) 

 has yielded one hundi'ed bushels of 

 fruit, as have the Gregg's. Persons 

 living in sections where land is fiat and 

 needs draining, and where Tylers will 

 stand and Gregg's have been killed back 

 some, can of course tell about ' Tylers 

 yielding as much as the Gregg,' but it's 

 not true with us. 



" The Tyler and Hopkins are both 

 splendid sorts, and we shall set heavily 

 of all three." 



PLUMS FOR A COLD CLIMATE. 

 A gentleman residing near Portland, 

 Maine, asks the editor of the Home 

 Farm for the best varieties of plum for 

 him to plant in his locality, to which 

 inquiry Mr. S. T. Cannon replies : — 

 For an orcliard of 100 trees I would 

 recommend the following soits : Lom- 

 bard, 25 ; Imperial Gage, 20 ; Brad- 

 shaw, 15 ; Yellow Egg, I ; Gen. Hand, 

 8 ; Jefferson, 6 ; Shropshire Damson, 

 5 ; Fellenberg, 5 ; Monroe, 4 ; Mooers' 

 Arctic, 2. The fii'st five named in the 

 above list ai-e old, popular, and well 

 known sorts. The Shropshire Damson 

 is esteemed for its preserving qualities. 

 In regard to the Mooers' Arctic, I 

 think it not so good as most other 

 kinds, below medium in quality ; its 

 chief merits ai'e its earliuess in coming 

 into bearing and eailiness in ripening. 



TULIPA GREIGL 

 Of all the known species of tulip this 

 is perhaps the most showy and desirable 

 as a garden plant. It blooms freely in 

 April or May, its large goblet-shaped 

 flowers being generally of a vivid scarlet 

 color ; but there are also purple and 

 yellow flowered forms. The bulbs are 

 so extremely hardy that they will with- 

 stand with impunity freezing and thaw- 



