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inspiring peach growers with hopeful- 

 ness. It is said to succeed both at the 

 north and at the south, and to bring 

 nearly twice as much in New York 

 city as ordinary varieties. It is a 

 yellow peach ripening just l)efore 

 Crawford's Late; it is large, produc- 

 tive and an excellent shipper. The 

 trees are also hardy and begin bearing 

 when quite young. 



Thk Lucretia Dewberry receives 

 vei'y higli commendation from Mr. A. 

 J. Caywood, of Ulster Co., N.Y. He 

 says they ripen a week ahead of the 

 Early Harvest blackberry, and bring 

 liira as high as 24c. per qt., retail. It 

 serves to keep up steady picking, be- 

 ginning with strawberries, then red 

 raspberries, Lucretia dewberries, black- 

 berries. It is a great bearer with him, 

 and the berries exceed the size of his 

 Kittatinnies, and are sweeter. They 

 are also firmer than blackberries. 

 With regard to planting and training, 

 he saysin Popular Gardening: — "I plant 

 them as I do red raspberries, four feet 

 apart each way, cultivate both ways 

 until the fore part of June, when the 

 renewals get too long to do so. We 

 then direct the renewals of each row 

 along the bottoms of the hills, and 

 cultivate the other way as long as 

 required, and one man has done the 

 directing of our patch in a day. The 

 old canes are taken from the stakes any 

 time after tlie fruit is off, -before tying 

 up in the spring. The renewals are 

 left on the ground all winter, which is 

 sufficient protection here, but if it is 

 necessary to protect thein in colder 

 regions, their prostrate position facili- 

 tates the work. In the spring, one 

 draws the entire hill from under the 

 other hills in the row, and holds them 

 to the stake, while a boy ties them 

 tightly ; this can be done as rapidly as 

 tying red raspberries. I think my 



patch was the first managed on this 

 plan ; we have tried the winrow system, 

 but like staking the plants better." 



Protecting Blackberry Bushes. — 

 A writer in the Prairie Farmer writes 

 as follows on this subject, which may 

 just now be interesting to some of our 

 readers : — 



" I have never found any variety 

 more hardy than Snyder, and when the 

 thermometer gets down 20 or .30 below 

 a few times, your blackberries are so 

 feeble that they don't give you a half 

 crop of fruit. It takes but five minutes 

 to cover a hush that will bear a peck 

 of fruit. Covering should be done 

 after the falling of the leaf. 



" In covering, use a fork, either a 

 potato or manure-fork ; remove a fork- 

 ful of earth on two sides of the cane 

 at the base ; place your foot at the ba.se 

 of the cane, with the fork on the top, 

 and bend it with the row ; hold it in 

 place, and put on a few forkfuls of 

 earth, and proceed witli the next hill, 

 laying it on the last, putting on just 

 earth enough to hold it down, till the 

 whole row is down. Now. go over the 

 row, and add earth so as to cover the 

 main canes, l)ut it is not necessary to 

 cover all the branches ; the first hold- 

 ing down is usually sufficient. The 

 raoi'e you put on, the more of a job 

 you will have to remove the earth from 

 and under the low in spring." 



Black Walnut Tree Growing. — 

 A correspondent in London makes 

 someinquiriesupon this subject. Others 

 beside him may be interested in 

 the following remarks in the Iowa 

 Homestead : — 



" Mr. George Van Houten, who is 

 regarded as good authority in such 

 matters, says if the husks are removed, 

 it is safe to count that about 1,000 

 nuts will make a bushel. With the 

 husks un, from 500 to 600 per bushel 

 would be a reasonable estimate. Some 

 years many of the nuts are abortive, 



