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and these choice kinds. The vahie of perfect fruits, compared 

 with wormy ones, is too great to allow any means to be neg- 

 lected which will secure the former. Suppose a garden to 

 contain half a dozen trees of the Red Astrachan, Early Har- 

 vest, Bough, Williams, Benoni, and Porter apples, how slight 

 would be the expense in the saving of a whole crop. 



But we need not comment further upon Mr. Simpson's 

 article ; its value will be appreciated by all cultivators. 



We only regret, that the communication did not come to 

 hand in season to find a place in our last number. We trust, 

 however, that it will yet be in time to enable those who fol- 

 low its good advice to save the greater part of their crop of 

 plums. — Ed. 



Art. IV. On the Cultivation of the High-bush Black- 

 berry ; ivith a Notice of the best Wash for Fruit Trees. 

 By Capt. Josiah Lovett, Beverly, Mass. 



Dear Sir, — Always having been particularly fond of the 

 smaller fruits, after preparing my grounds, and setting out a 

 variety of strawberries and raspberries, about the year 1835, 

 I turned my attention to the cultivation of the high-bush 

 blackberry of our woods. At the season of ripening, I, for 

 several years in succession, travelled through the woods of 

 Beverly, Wenham, and Manchester, in the county of Essex, 

 in search of such bushes as bore the largest and best berries ; 

 having noticed the most conspicuous in passing, I placed a 

 stake by, or tied a string upon, each of them, and, returning 

 early in the autumn, or on the following spring, I took up 

 all the marked bushes and removed them to my own garden, 

 or cultivated grounds ; this experiment I followed for several 

 years in succession, but in all cases made a very signal 

 failure in the production of any fruit worthy of garden cul- 

 ture, and, I think, in 1840, gave up all hope of ever being 

 able to grow this berry successfully. Several of my friends 

 were no more fortunate in attempting to raise good fruit from 



