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ing the richest soil and highest culture with runners cut, A. fine fruit 

 for the amateur. 



The monthly bush Alpines, white and red, should also find a place 

 in the garden, since upon rich, moist soil and with clean culture they 

 will supply the table until frost. 



If any enjoy a musky flavor let them cultivate a bed of Hautbois. 



This is but a very partial, list. There are hundreds of old varieties 

 which in the main have gone out of favor. There are also scores of 

 new ones, very few of which, notwithstanding the enthusiasm of the 

 originators, will ever become established favorites. I shall test these 

 new comers and report accurately on their behavior with me. 



Kerr's Late Prolific— Grreat things were claimed for this berry at 

 first, and then it passed into disfavor. I do not think its character 

 has been understood. If allowed to run it will soon mat the ground 

 with a perfect sod of plants. The fruit will be small and the foliage 

 will buru. But for two Summers I have kept the runners off of a 

 few plants, and the result has been surprising. In both instances 

 there was an abundance of large, late and delicious fruit. The pet- 

 ting that the Great American requires would give superb results with 

 this berry. 



We have enough merely good berries. As the proverb goes, 

 " There is always room at the top." If better varieties than we now 

 have can be originated they will be most welcome. That any of the 

 new and wonderful kiuds that are now being trumpeted over the land 

 are better, can only be learned by a careful trial, reaching through a 

 . number of years and over a wide and varied region of country. 



But we have no cause to complain, for the long list of good and 

 very good varieties is like the bill of fare at a fashionable hotel of 

 which a traveler complained that it would take him a week to eat his 

 way through it. 



