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Success with Small Fruits. 



were shipped from Marlboro' ; but adds that, since " 1860 it has decreased 

 as fast. From present appearances, the variety must become extinct, 

 and I fear will never have its equal." Milton, Cornwall, Newburgh, 



The Approach of the Night Boat. 



and other points competed in the profitable industry, and now, with 

 Marlboro', are replacing the failing variety with other kinds more 

 vigorous in growth, but thus far inferior in quality. 



That the great industry is not falling off is shown by the following 

 statement, taken from the New York Tribune in the summer of 1879: 

 " The village of. Highland, opposite Poughkeepsie, runs a berry boat daily 

 to New York, and the large night steamers are now taking out immense 

 loads of raspberries from the river towns every evening, having at times 

 nearly 2,000 bushels on board." 



' From as careful a computation as I have been able to make, through 

 the courtesy of the officers of the large Kingston boats, the Baldwin and 

 Cornell, I am led to believe that these two steamers unitedly carried to the 

 city over twenty thousand bushels of berries that same year. The magni- 

 tude of this industry on the Hudson will be still better realized when it is 



