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all to try it in a small way. The Covell 

 is the earliest of all, quite productive, 

 and a firm, attractive-looking berry of 

 good flavor. All that prevents it from 

 being very valuable is its small size. 

 In the matted row, with ordinary cul- 

 ture, the fruit is about an inch in 

 diameter for two or three pickings, and 

 with better culture the size is little, if 

 any, larger. I can scarcely recomme..d 

 it for market. — M. Crawford, Siunmit 

 County, Ohio. 



Pearl Strawberry. — I have read 

 with interest the note of Mr. E. Wil- 

 liams in a late number, on the 

 behavior of the Pearl on his grounds 

 in New Jer.sey. We can also report 

 unexpected satisfaction with our trial 

 of it under the most trying circum- 

 stances. Our plants, received from the 

 West Jersey Nursery Company in the 

 spring of 1887, were planted on well- 

 prepared ground with such leading, new- 

 sorts as Bubach's No. 5, Jessie, Jewell, 

 Itasca, Great Pacific, and Townsend's 

 1001. The season proved the dry est 

 and hottest known in the histoiy of the 

 West, yet the foliage on the Pearl 

 remained perfect, and the first of Octo- 

 ber showed a well-tilled matted row, 

 better than anything on the plot, except 

 Great Pacific. When the crop ripened 

 this season it was pronounced by pick- 

 ers and visitors the best in yield of the 

 new sorts, and the evenest, smoothest, 

 firmest-fleshed, and best in quality of 

 any berry. This is high praise and 

 may not be repeated another year, but 

 as it now stands it has done admirably 

 under the most adverse circumstances. 

 —J. L. BuDD, Iowa Agricultural Col- 

 lege. 



Sir, — As I had been anxious to see 

 the "Jessie " strawberry in fruit, I took 

 a visit to John Little's fruit garden 

 Granton, Ontario, on the 6th day of 

 July, but I was too late as it was nearly 

 over, but he recommended it highly for 

 an early berry. I was also interested 

 to see his own new Seedlings which I 

 found to be a most prosperous success. 



and was surprised to find so late in season 

 such a berry as his No. 15 (Seedling). 

 It combines large, and equal size, fine 

 color and form, with unsurpassed pro- 

 ductiveness and good quality of fruit. 

 I would say this : if the No. 15 turns 

 out the same as his, in diflTerent soil, it 

 is better than any of the highly praised 

 novelties that I have bought for the 

 last six or eight years, and I have on 

 my own ground all of fifty kinds of 

 strawberries growing. I remain, yours 

 truly, Fred Mayer. 



Bridgeport, Jtdy 10th, 1888. 



Copperas as Manure. 



The first instances are those made 

 under the direction of Professor Mnntz. 

 at the farm school of Vincennes. 

 France. 



A solution of one per cent, of sul- 

 phate of iron was used ; the quantity 

 corresponded to fifty-eight pounds per 

 acre. 



On equal lengths of rows the increase 

 was ten per cent, of Dwarf Beans, and 

 within a fraction of ten per cent, on 

 Carrots. 



From some other trials there was 

 reason to think that a second watering 

 would have been still more beneficial, 

 and this opinion is confirmed by an ex 

 periment made by M. Fischer. Presi- 

 dent of the Section of Horticulture, at 

 Chaillevois, in which an increase of 

 thirty-six per cent, of crop is noted by 

 use of two hundred and seventy pounds 

 per acre. 



On both of these trials the spaces 

 occupied by the crops and their weight 

 were accurately determined. 



Other instances are given. One is a 

 dose equivalent to thirteen hundred 

 pounds an acre on a plat of Peas and 

 other vegetables. The Peas pushed 

 with extraordinary vigor and grew to a 

 gigantic size, and the crop was very 

 abundant : the other vegetables pre- 

 sented an equally remarkable develop 

 raent. 



Another, some Lettuce upon the cop- 

 peras, was used at the rate of eight 



