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fii-st season. They will bear in six or seven weeks from the clay of settiaag, 

 and if transplanted with a ball of earth adhering to the roots, will fstait 

 nearly as well as though they had not been moved. Care should bo taken 

 to select well-rooted runners of the previous year's growth. It never paya 

 to move old strawberry plants. The second year's yield of a new strawberry 

 patch will be found abundant if it has been kept clear of weeds. Wilson's 

 Albany may be depended on to give a bushel of berries to the square rod, 

 or two quarts per day for half a month, in any year while in full beariaig. 



Musk melons and water melons will yield their delicious products four 

 months after planting. They can be grown in any of the older districts 

 of Canada, but should be started in a hot-bed. This is necessary in order 

 to get the fruit in hot weather, when it is most welcome. But a hot-bed 

 may be very cheaply constructed, and will be found very useful for starting 

 other plants. Lettuce, radishes, tomatoes, cabbages, ike, may be grown 

 around the melon plants, and as these are consumed or transplanted, room 

 will be made for the melons to spread themselves, until finally they are 

 left in possession of the whole bed, from which the frame can easily bo 

 removed when hot weather is fairly established. 



Gooseberries, currants, i-aspberries, and blackberries will all bear a litil© 

 fruit the same season they are set out, if permitted to do so. But it is 

 better to defer their fruiting until the second season, from which time they 

 will begin to bear in good earnest. Gooseberries and cui'rants will not 

 yield largely the second season, because the bushes will be small, but rasp- 

 berries and blackberries will produce a full crop the second year. 



Dwarf apples and pears are (^specially valuable because they come quickly 

 into bearing. For a permanent orchard standard ti-ees are pi-eferable, but 

 those who want fruit in a hurry should plant the dwarfs. It is thought by 

 many that their precocity in bearing makes them short-lived, but they aret 

 well worth cultivating for immediate results. A nurseryman in Western 

 Ontario, wishing to read a lesson to a resident in his village who was too. 

 impatient of results to plant an orchard, offered to set a dwarf apple-tree 

 in his garden on these conditions: — that he, the nurseryman, was to have 

 charge of the tree the first summer, and I'eceive in payment the sum of 

 ten cents for every ripened apple it produced. It bore seven apples, bring- 

 ing the nurseryman seventy cents, twice the usual price of a dwarf apple 

 tree. In ordering dwarf trees with a view to quick-fruiting, it is well to let 

 the nurseryman select varieties, as some bear much earliear than others. 



Grapes afford fruit soon, usually beginning to bear the second and 

 third year from planting. There is now a long list of them that may be 

 selected from for out-door culture, but they vary in the time of ripening, 

 and while there are many localities in Canada where any and all of them 

 may be depended on to i-ipen tiieir fruit, there are others where only tho 

 earliest kinds will come to maturity. 



A good supply of the fruits that have been enumerated will furnish a 

 family with these wholesome luxuries in a comparatively short period from 

 their entrance on new pi-emises. But while due attention is given to these, 

 by all means let an oi'chard be planted, that ample provision may be made 

 for .the wants of the future. IjINDENBANK, in Montreal Witness. 



