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Extni Pearly, Bliss' Triumph and Early 

 Puritan, side by sido, in niy garden. 

 Tilt! yield from nine hills of eacli, dug 

 on August 27, was as follows — tlie 

 potatoes in each case being cut into 

 single eyes, and two pieces put into 

 each hill : Vicks' Extra Early, nine 

 liills, ten pounds two ounces ; Bliss' 

 Triumph, nine hills, fourteen pounds 

 six ounces ; Eaily Rose, nine hills, six 

 teen pounds six ounces ; Early Puritan, 

 nine hills, twenty-four pounds. The 

 ground was not fitted up in any way 

 extra. Tlie only thino, 1 jmt a little 

 salt and ashes in each iiill, not with the 

 seed, but after a little earth had been 

 hauled on to the seed. I am very 

 much plea.sed with the Puritan and 

 think it will pay any one to get the 

 .same as soon as they can. I have not 

 had time to weigh up the net amount 

 of potatoes from the half peck yet, but 

 I intend doing so and will let you 

 know in another number. If there are 

 any of the readers of the Horticultuk- 

 l.ST, who would like to know anything 

 more about this potato I will be pleased 

 to answer any questions, through the 

 columns of the Horticulturist. I am 

 going to plant all I raised, next season, 

 and plant no other potato. I had one 

 drill each of Puritan and Rose side by 

 side — the potatoes in eacli case l)eing 

 cut to single eyes and put in ten inches 

 apart in the drill. The drill was made 

 j.ix inches deep, the seed partly cov- 



ered and a little salt and ashes put on 

 the ground on toj) of the .seed, then 

 more giound hauled in. The yield from 

 thirty feet of diill was : Puritan, 

 thii ty pounds two ounces ; Early Rose, 

 twenty-one pounds .seven ounces. My 

 soil is a heavy clay loam, but next 

 season I am going to plant in a piece 

 of sandy loam ajid see how they will 

 turn out. The potatoes, Puritan, are 

 much larger than tlie Early Rose and 

 the eyes are not nearly so deep. I can 

 give you an account of their keeping 

 qualities near .spring, and will cook 

 some about the middle of March or 

 April and report on them again. I 

 think by this time your readeis will 

 say, let up on the Puritan potato and 

 give us .something new. I will do so 

 and begin with a novelty in the tomato 

 line called Tree Tomato. I sowed the 

 seed in a box in the house about the 

 tirst week in April. When about three 

 inches high, transplanted it into the 

 garden and at the time of writing one 

 of the plants (of which I had three out 

 of a package of .seed) has one tomato 

 on, wrinkled, and about one and a half 

 inches across. If they do no better 

 other places than here I would say, 

 don't squander any money on Tree 

 Tomato seed. I have grown this sea- 

 son for the first the Cinnamon Vine 

 and am delighted with it. Tt has made 

 about twelve feet of growth and is a 

 very pretty climber. 



MISCELLANY. 



Fraudulent Apple Dealers. 



A Montreal gentleman now on a trip 

 to England, writes to the Montreal 

 Witness : I would hardly have been in- 

 duced to send you even a few lines .so 

 early but for one rea.son, one which I 

 feel is of some importance to at least 

 one interest in Canada — the export- 

 ation of fruit. I am not at liberty to 

 give the name of my informant, but the 



facts can be iuq)licitly relied upon. The 

 importations to Liverpool, by the 

 several lines of steamers, of Canadian 

 apples, is fast becoming one of the big 

 booms, becau.se for some time honesty 

 was down to the bottom of each barrel, 

 but last year some of the Can.adian 

 growers caught the Yankee infection, 

 and thousands of l)arrels, when opened 

 on the dock or on the market, were 



