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apple. It only requires ten feet of space, bears at an 

 early age, and affords ripe fruit in July and August. 

 The apples are fair-sized, bright golden-yellow, with a 

 red stripe, mildly acid, and richly aromatic. It is a 

 hardy tree. 



Among Crab-apples the Montreal Beauty, Hyslop, and 

 Transcendent, are the best sorts. 



Every farmer should have in his orchard the luscious 

 Red Astrachan and Fall Jenneting, for early use, and for 

 winter the Westfleld Seek-no-Further, and the Golden 

 Pippin. 



BERRIES. 



In these fruits a little investment of money brings 

 prompt and large returns. Fifty Strawberry plants and 

 a few "canes" of Raspberries will, in two years, load the 

 family table with their generous fruitage. 



Strawberries. Monarch of the West is one of the best 

 berries for family use, being large, tender, mildly acid, 

 and very productive. The Great American is an im- 

 mense berry, being exhibited at fairs seven, eight, and 

 nine inches in circumference. It is quite a new variety, 

 and a few plants of it would make an interesting " gar- 

 den " for some ambitious farm-boy or girl to look after. 

 For market culture the old Wilson's Seedling seems to 

 be unsurpassed. 



Raspberries. Mammoth Cluster and Gregg are the 

 finest of the Black Caps. Turner and Herstine are good 

 and hardy red sorts, and Antwerp Yellow is a creamy 

 orange berry of good quality and flavor. 



Raspberries should be planted in rich, mellow soil, 

 three or four canes to the hill. After the berry harvest 

 is over each fall, the old stalks or canes should be cut 

 out, as it is the new ones that bear the next year's fruit, 

 and they will be far more vigorous and productive from 

 having the field to themselves. 



