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XEW ENGLA^T> FARIMER. 



March 



GILYAK VILLAGE. 



Though the natives do the most of the fish- 

 ing on the Anioor, the}' do not have a monop- 

 oly of it, as some of the Russians indulge in 

 the sport. One old fellow that I saw had a 

 boat so full of salmon ihat there Avas no room 

 for more. Now and then a fish went over- 

 board, causing an expression on the boatman's 

 face as if he were sulfering from a dose of as- 

 tonishment and toothache drops in equal pro- 

 portion. 



A LAKGE BLACKBERRY PATCH. 



Ko blackberr}-, excepting the wild one of 

 the fence sides and pastures, so far as our 

 knowledge goes, has yet been found which is 

 sufficiently hardy to ripen its fruit in the open 

 air in and north of the State of Massachu- 

 setts. We have transferred the icild one into 

 the gard^in and obtained tolerably fine fruit 

 from it; not large, but of very high quality. 

 It did not prove sufficiently prolific, however, 

 to make its cultivation an object. If a high 

 cultivation were persisted in for several years 

 it might result in producing an abundant 

 bearer of excellent fruit, 



The variety known as the Neio Roclielle, or 

 Laicton, is a splendid fruit, and is becoming 

 quite common in tiie markets of New York 

 city and those south of it. In the region of 

 Boston, the warm season is not long enough 

 to ripen it. We have had vines loaded with 

 the largest and finest-looking fruit wc ever 



saw, early In October, when no frost had 

 touched it. It was in perfect shape, as black 

 as coal, and as sour as vinegar ! In rooting 

 out a patch by Irishmen, loaded with such 

 fruit, no one was found who would eat it. It 

 was "bail to give the pigs." Tlie bunches of 

 this fruit surpass those of any other blackberry * 

 which we have seen. The berries are long, 

 thick in diameter as compared with other va- 

 rieties, and are clustered upon long stems, so 

 that a few bunches only would be required to 

 fill a (piart measure. The attempt to ripen 

 them by sheltering hedges, and by other 

 means, did not succeed, and we were most 

 reluctantly obliged to give them up. 



The Dordicster, introduced by the late Capt. 

 Lovett, of Beverly, Mass., is nearly equal in 

 size to the New llochelle, of a more elongated 

 form, grains rather smaller, somewhat sweeter, 

 and produces large crops of high-flavored 

 fruit, and is a vigorous grower on rich soils. 

 The fruit is of a deep, shining black. When 

 highly cultivated it runs to vines extrava- 

 gantly, which are apt to be winter-killed, in 

 part, and become fruitless. Planted on a 

 lighter and poorer soil, they make less vines 

 and are more fruitful with us. 



But we intended to say something of the 

 little blackberry patch of Mr. John S. Col- 

 lins, near Camden, N. J. It comprises sev- 



