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Blackberries. The Lawton and Early Wilson bear 

 fruit of enormous size, and well repay good cultivation. 



Gooseberries. Smith's Improved is moderate and com- 

 pact in growth, and largely productive, thus recommend- 

 ing itself for garden culture. Roe's Early Ruby is an- 

 other excellent sort. 



Currants. The Black Naples is a large, fine sort, ex- 

 cellent for wine and jelly. The White Grape is an early 

 and profuse bearer, and the Red Cherry, a sort that 

 should be grown in every garden in place of the small, 

 common variety. 



GRAPES. 



In Europe "grape-cures" are established, to which all 

 sorts of debilitated, blood-poisoned people go, to live 

 aside from a little bread entirely upon grapes, sunlight, 

 and pure air for weeks at a time. It is one of the "reg- 

 ulations" that these happy invalids must pick their own 

 grapes, and, as their appetites rapidly increase, it is no 

 doubt a fact that they owe, in part, their recoveries, 

 which are generally certain, to the almost constant sun- 

 light and the invigorating mountain air in which they 

 pass their waking hours. 



Grape-cures, or almost any kind of fruit-cures, might 

 be established in our own gardens and on our own hill- 

 sides. The prescription is a very simple one ; enough 

 of sound, ripe fruit (eaten at regular intervals) to satisfy 

 hunger, the fruit to be picked by the invalids themselves, 

 thus insuring pure air, sunlight, and mild exercise. The 

 grape is one of the best and purest of tonics, and eaten, 

 as it is in such instances, almost exclusively, a cleansed 

 and purified system is the result, with all its happy man- 

 ifestations in brightened eyes, clear and ruddy complex- 

 ions, tranquil nerves, and active mental and physical 

 powers. Beginning with currants which are almost 



