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as they color, and long before they are 

 ripe, or get their proper flavor. Such 

 work deserves the remark quoted, but 

 a well ripened Alexander or Early 

 Purple is certainly a delicious morsel 

 for dessert, notwithstanding. 



The Nova Scotia Apple Crop will be smaller 

 than last year, though a good crop is 

 expected in the counties of Annapolis, 

 Kings, and Hants. Last year King's 

 County alone produced 70,000 barrels, 

 of which 20,000 were Gravensteins. 

 Nearly as many were grown in Hants 

 County, and double the quantity, or 

 nearly 150,000, in Annapolis. 



Training the Dewberry. — Pojmlar Gar- 

 dening gives the following directioiis : — 

 Set the plants in fall or spring eight 

 feet by six feet. When the vines have 

 reached a length of thirty inches, the 

 ends should be nipped out. Late in 

 autumn or early in winter the vines 

 are covered lightly with corn-fodder or 

 straw. This is easily and cheaply done 

 as the vines lie on the ground. The 

 following spring all the vines are cut 

 back to three feet, and thinned to four 

 or five canes to the hill. The straw 

 and fodder are now put under the vines 

 for a mulch, and the berries kept clean. 

 Treated in this way the improved sorts 

 will bear every year large crops of 

 splendid fruit. 



The Marlboro. — Pres. T. T. Lyon, of 

 Michigan, says the Marlboro proves to 

 be an enormous producer of plants, and 

 the fruit is large and showy, but indif- 

 ferent in flavor. We agree with him 

 with reference to its insipid flavor, a 

 very serious fault with so attractiye a 

 berry. With us, it fruits heavily, this, 

 its second year of bearing, and comes 

 in between the Highland Hardy and 

 the Cuthbert. 



The Apple Crop in New York State. — Ac- 

 cording to Vick's Monthly, the Ameri- 

 can Depart, of Agriculture makes out too 

 good a report when excepting New York 



State from the list of States in which 

 the apple crop is light. The Western 

 part of the State is the chief producing 

 area, and there crop is light, because 

 only a few kinds ai'e bearing well, and 

 the Baldwin, which is the leading va- 

 riety, is producing very little — in most 

 orchards. 



White Blackberries- —On page five of 

 this voluble there is an enquiry from 

 Mr. Bucke, of Ottawa, concerning white 

 blackberries, in reply to which we men- 

 tioned the Crystal White as one of the 

 varieties which has been to some extent 

 cultivated. We now show an engraving 





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Crystal White Blackberry. 



of this vai'iety, at the same time caution- 

 ing our Canadian readers against plant- 

 ing it, unless in the most favored 

 situations, as it is not hardy. The fruit 

 is sweet, creamy white in color, and of 

 a good size. The canes are nearly white, 

 and vigorous in growth, but not very 

 l)rolitic. 



It will be interesting to hear what 

 success attends Mr. Bucke's endeavor 

 to propagate the variety which he found 

 upon the banks of the Ottawa, and 

 which will surely pi'ove hard}^. 



Cold Storage of Apples is strongly re- 

 commended in the same journal, by Mr. 

 Samuel L. Boardman, Secretary Maine 

 State Pomological Society. He says 

 they are becoming an absolute neces- 

 sity to our commercial orchardists. He 



