THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 115 



quality, is a question that presents itself prominently to the mind of 

 one who is thinking of growing fruit for that market. In many places 

 a stra wherry is a strawherry, and fine quality and showy appearance 

 will not conmiand a higher price than the medium grade. Eut if the 

 market is one where bright color, large size and pleasant flavor will 

 command douhle the price of those of medium quality in these respects, 

 then one may venture to plant a few varieties for the express purpose 

 of meeting that demand. Having such a market in view, it would 

 seem that Crescent Seedling, New Dominion and Sharpless might be 

 planted with good prospect of receiving satisfactory returns, to bo 

 preceded by Early Canada and followed by Glendale. 



SHEEP IN THE OECHAED. 



A correspondent of the Yermont Journal gives the following inter- 

 esting experience in keeping sheep in an apple orchard : 



]\Ty apple orchard covers thirty-two acres of ground, and in addition to 

 making it a run for some thirty hogs, I have during tlie past two years" 

 kept from 150 to 200 slieo]} and lambs in it during the summer. Of 

 course that amount of land, if it was in good seeding and free from trees, 

 would not pasture so much stock, but in addition to tlie jiasturo, I feed 

 enough grain and wlieat bran to keep them in sucli condition tbat the 

 lambs shall be largo enough to wean in July, and the sheep sufficiently 

 tlirifty to accept the buck after weaning the lambs, and thus drop their 

 next lambs for early winter feeding next winter. 



Tlas, I find, costs me less than to hire the same number pastured by 

 the week, and being crowded they cat every spear of grass, every weed 

 and green thing close down, and eat every fallen apple as soon as dropped; 

 for the latter purpose I find sheep much better than hogs, for while the 

 hogs sleep so soundly as not to hear an apple drop if only a few feet 

 away, a sheep never sleeps, so that it is on hand for every apple as soon as 

 it touches the ground. 



I let them run here until time to gather winter fruit, and although 

 they will eat a few apples and a few twigs from the ends of the lower 

 limbs, as they bend down with their load of fruit, I find my fruit each 

 year growing fairer, with less and less wormy apples, and my trees, manured 

 with the feeding of so much grain, are looking remarkably healthy and 

 are productive. To prevent their gnawing the smaller trees, I wash the 

 trunks with a solution of soapsuds, whale oil soap and sheep manure, 

 about once esich month, and besides I give the sheep a constant and full 

 supply of fresh water ; this is very important, for in hot weather they get 

 very thirsty and will eat the bark from larger trees even, unless they have 

 plenty of water. 



