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Fay's vs. Cherry Currant. — Peter 

 Fay says in the same journal : " For 

 two years I have grown Fay's Prolific 

 currant. The fruit stem is four to five 

 inches long, commencing of a good size 

 at the stalk, but diminishing toward 

 the end of the stem, which is not larger 

 than duck shot. I pi-efer the Cherry 

 currant at the same price ; it is a great 

 bearer." 



Dr. Hoskins, however, prefers the 

 Fays. Probably his soil is dififerent. 

 He says ; " At last we have a big cur- 

 rant that will bear heavy ci'ops on light 

 land. I have never been able t« make 

 a cent by growing the Versailles or the 

 Cherry currant, they are so very un- 

 productive on my soil. I have now had 

 the Fay four years, and find them yield- 

 ing as heavily as the reliable old Red 

 Dutch. As the currant crop is quite an 

 item in my farming, I consider that I 

 have in the Fay a bonanza, as I had 

 confidence in them from the first, and 

 have made a large plantation of them." 



With us at Grimsby the Cherry has 

 been a great favorite, especially on clay 

 loam, where no better cropper could be 

 desired, and the fruit grows to a tremend- 

 ous size. But on light soil it l;eai-s very 

 light crops. 



J. J. Thomas is reported as saying 

 that anyone who has the Versailles, 

 Cherry or the Fay alone, need not take 

 the trouble to get either of the others, 

 unless the latter should prove after 

 years of trial to be the most productive. 



Jewell Strawberry. — A writer in 

 It. ^V. Y. complains that this variety 

 throws out very few runnei-s, while the 

 Belmont sends them out in abundance. 



The Marlboro' Raspberry. — The 

 Hon. Mr. P. Wilder says of this variety : 

 '• The Marlboro' is earh^ and prolific, 

 ripening its cro|) gradually, and when 

 fullyripe is of good quality, good size and 

 firm enough for traveling to a distant 

 market ; but to obtain these advantages 

 the suckers must constantly be cut down. 



It is the most vigorous and robust of all 

 raspberries. " 



INDUSTRY GOOSEBERRY. 



This English Gooseberry, which has 

 now been considerably disseminated in 

 this country, appears to hold its place 

 as a non-mildewing variety, a veiy 

 unusual circumstance in.this country, for 

 all other varieties of the English Goose- 

 berry have been subject to a destructive 

 fungus on this side ot the Atlantic, ex- 

 cept in some particular spots, or for a 

 short term, merely. The fruit is large, 

 of a dark red color, and of excellent 

 quality. It is quite productive. With 

 this variety and Downing, and Smith's 

 Improved, fruit growers should be able 

 to raise handsome crops, and every 

 private garden should be enriched by 

 their possession. — Vick's Magazine for 

 January. 



A BIG yield of strawberries. 



Sir, — I thought I had done exceed- 

 ingly well with the Wilson strawberry 

 last summer, but I see, according to 

 John Croil, of Aultsville, I was beaten 

 by " Mr. Beall's crop." 



From a spot three rods one way, by 

 five the othei-, in my garden, 975 quarts 

 of Wilson sti'awberries were gathered 

 last July. The mode of cultivation was 

 as follows : The ground being well pre- 

 pared in April, 1885, it was planted in 

 ro^vs two feet and a half apart, with 

 thrifty plants from ten inches to a foot 

 apart. Then Globe mangels and carrots 

 (the large white) were sown midway 

 between the rows of strawberries. 

 Sixty bushels of roots were gathered 

 in October, 1885. A selection from 

 mangles took the first prize at the great 

 Northern Exhibition in Collingwood. 

 The sti'awberry vines covered the 

 ground without thinning or directing 

 after iuly, 1885, but they were treated 

 with two or three bushels of hard wood 

 ashes in March. j. B. Aylworth. 



