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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



of that year. Early in April, 1885, 

 it was raked over and given a light 

 dressing of hard wood unleached ashes, 

 and planted with thrifty Wilson plants, 

 in rows fi'om two feet to two feet and 

 a half apart ; the plants from nine to 

 twelve inches apart. Between the 

 rows of sti-awberries were sown Globe 

 Mangolds and Big White Carrots (about 

 half of each), midway between the 

 rows of berries. The gi-ound was kept 

 thoroughly free from weeds and grass 

 through 1885, with the hoe and hand. 

 No ruiniers were disturbed, unless by 

 guiding them so that they would be 

 properly spread over the plot, or helped 

 a little with earth to take root. Sixty 

 Vjaskets or quarts of sti-awberries were 

 t:iken from the vines in June and July, 

 1885. Also, in October, 1886, sixty 

 bushels of mangolds and carrots were 

 taken from the same plot. The picking 

 began on the 19tli of June, and closed 

 on the 20th of July. Rain, in abund- 

 ance and at right times, greatly helped. 

 I have tried to secure a second large 

 crop from the same plot, but have not 

 succeeded. The vines seemed to have 

 exhausted either themselves or the soil, 

 and weeds and grass, and especially the 

 white clover — about the worst of weeds 

 among strawberries — seeni to spring up 

 spontaneously, as if for spite. So that 

 I strongly incline to be satisfied with 

 the one big crop, and the few produced 

 the year of planting, and tui-n all under 

 after the second year. 



J. B. Ayleworth, CoUiiigwood. 



SMALL FRUIT NOTES, 



Berry Boxes. — The Fruit Exchange, 

 Benton Harbor, Michigan, has adopted 

 the following sizes for their berry boxes 

 for 1887. 



Quart Boxes ; 5 inches square and 

 2}^ inches deep, containing 67 cubic 

 inches, or a full quart. 



Pint Boxes ; same size square as the 

 quart, and half as deep, to hold a full 

 ])int. 



We would suggest the wisdom of the 

 menibei's of our Association agreeing 

 together to accei)t some uniform size in 

 berry boxes, and certainly quarts and 

 half quarts are the most sensible sizes. 



Marketing. — A writer in Tennessee 

 Messenger says the best way of selling 

 our fi'uits is to induce the fruit buytsrs 

 who speculate in fruit to come to our 

 shipping points and there purchase 

 direct from the growers, instead of from 

 commission men in the towns. This 

 method is practised in the peach busi- 

 ness in New Jersey and Maryland. 



Fay's Currant. — Mr. Geo. Josselyn, 

 Fredonia, N. Y., states in his spring 

 circular, that he has already paid the 

 estate of Lincoln Fay over $22,000 in 

 cash, as their share from his sales of 

 Fay's Prolific, which he considers worth 

 noticing, as the first instance in which 

 the originator has received anything 

 like a decent compensation for a good 

 new fruit. 



Overdone. — R. F. Schumacher says 

 in Ohio Farmer, that small-fruit grow- 

 ing is overdone ; and that wheat and 

 potato growing is the more profitable 

 of the two. He had to sell his straw- 

 berries at 3 cents a quart in Cleveland, 

 and his grapes at 1| cents a pound. No 

 wonder he is sick of the business. 



The Jewell Strawberry has so many ])oints 

 of excellence that one reads with regret 

 the statement in the Orchard and Gar- 

 den that it is a poor grower. Who has 

 tested it thoroughly in Canada? 



Minnewaski Blackberry. — W. A. Brown, 

 Benton Harbor, Mich., considei's this 

 a very promising blackberry. He says 

 he has not yet tested its general hardi- 

 ness, but has faith in its success. 



