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appeai*ances, were rushing into a vigor- 

 ous growth ; but in two or three weeks 

 the growth had stopped, the bark looked 

 dry and sometimes shrivelled, and no 

 amount of treatment during the sum- 

 mer could renew the vigor or encourage 

 the growth. 



Trees purchased in the spring show 

 very little sign of growing for one or 

 two weeks after planting, but when 

 they do start they continue to grow 

 throughout the season, and establish 

 themselves sufficiently to bear the frosts 

 of the following winter. 



Now, this is my experience, as briefly 

 as 1 can state it, with pear trees, and if 

 any of the z-eaders of your really excel- 

 lent and highly valued journal, has had 

 a different experience I would like to 

 hear it. Respectfully, 



T. H. EACE. 

 Mitchell, July 18, 1887. 

 Note. — See article on Transplanting Trees, p. 196. 



THE LUCRETIA DEWBERRY. 



Sir, — I beg to report that my Lucre- 

 tia Dewbeny has stood the winter well, 

 having been slightly covered, and bore 

 some 18 or 20 berries about the size of 

 my blackberries, but more tart in fla- 

 vour ; and it has made good shoots for 

 next year. G. WILGRESS, Cobourg. 



Sir : The Lucretia Dewberry came 

 through last winter all right, this sum- 

 mer it has made a growth of three feet 

 or over, but I have had no fruit yet. 

 Would you please give directions in the 

 Horticulturi t for planting and caring 

 for the bulbs you send out this fall ? 

 S. REESOR, Cedar Grove. 



Sir : With me this plant is doing re- 

 markably well. It has grown seven 

 feet and it had just a few berries which 

 were of good size and delicious flavor. 



EDWIN C. BARTLEY. 

 Wahiut HiU, Out. 



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WiBZB 0f Jfntits. 



Sext in importance to the best modes of cultivation 

 and the selection of the choicest varieties, comes the 

 mo/tt approved methods of prepai ing fruits for use. 

 We ivould he glad therefore if the ladies, who read 

 this Journal, would moke free use of this column 

 for an interchange of ideas on this subject. 



FRUIT vs. PILLS. 

 'HY should the American farmer 

 live all the year on salt pork 

 and fried potatoes ? One of the 

 earliest recollections of my life is the 

 longing I had to get into a city once in 

 a while, so that I could get all the 

 strawberries I could eat. The average 

 boy lives a great deal in his stomach. 

 He has a hearty, unquestioning ap- 

 petite, and in the spring and summer 

 he eats without hesitation anything 

 that is green. It is an instinct of his 

 nature. He needs the fruit for its 

 juices, and the right way to keep him 

 from gi-een stufi" is to give him plenty 

 of good, ripe fruit. In my boyhood on 

 the farm, as above intimated, I thought 

 strawberries, raspberries, grapes and 

 peaches (with cream) were for city 

 people, while an occasional mess of 

 stewed currants, a few blackberries 

 gathered after haying and harvest were 

 over (no time before), and a small bas- 

 ket of apples, clubbed ofi" the trees, and 

 contended for with the j^igs that stood 

 waiting and watching were for farniei"S. 

 Who can blame the boy, with a natural, 

 healthy appetite, if he get tired munch- 

 ing this same old stuflT — pork, pickles, 

 biscuits and poattoes — and rebels 

 affainst the farm 1 — Ohio Farmer. 



FRUIT FOR BREAKFAST. 



Leigh Hunt, who was a mild epi- 

 cure in his way, protested against other 

 food for breakl'ast than toast, ham, tea 

 or coffee, eggs, and always something 

 potted In our climate it may be 

 added, and always, fruit the year round. 

 For breakfast eat fruit. The earth and 

 skies share its life. Its flesh, filled with 



