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experimental cultivation of the cane here, informs me that he expects 

 to visit the Western States next autumn, and bring with him some 

 utensils for the prosecution of this industry, and at the same time gain 

 such a practical knowledge of the system there employed as will enable 

 him to direct the operation of sugar making on his own farm. 



An acre of sorgum will give from two hundred to three hundred 

 gallons of syrup, so that the capacity of the apparatus employed should 

 be gaged by the area sown. 



NEW CHERRY, " NE PLUS, ULTRAl' THE UTTERMOST 



POINT. 



BY CHARLES AKXOLD, PARIS, ONT. 



Some four or five years ago our venerable friend and fruit grower-, 

 Mr. John Mosely, of Goderich, sent me prepaid a small box of cherries, 

 with the above latin phrase as the name. After reading over the 

 name and examining the fruit very critically, I of course wrote a letter 

 to friend Mosely, thanking him kindly for the fruit, and for his kind 

 offer to send me scions. The whole family tasted the fruit, and 

 pronounced it "not bad," with a strong resemblance to Napoleon 

 Bigarreau, but smaller, and in no way superior to it. Again looking 

 at the name, I exclaimed, " What ! the uttermost point of perfection ? 

 Never. 'Ne Plus Ultra! Nonsense." A few of the cherries were 

 again tasted, and the rest left in the basket in which they were sent 

 without further notice for near a w^eek. The cherries at this time, and 

 for several days after, were perfectly sound, while all varieties of 

 cherries with me, including Napoleon, rotted ; the half of them aftet 

 being picked only a few hours, and some of them rotted upon the tree. 

 The Ne Plus Ultra was again tasted, and pronounced " good." This 

 cherry was but little more thought of until the next spring, when Mr. 

 Mosely kindly sent me (unsolicited) a few grafts. The grafts were 

 immediately used ; three or four of them grew, and last year one of 

 them bore fruit. The only thing remarkable about these cherries up 

 to their time of ripening, was their manner of growth. The fruit did 

 not, like most other cherries, grow in large clusters on strong spurs, but 

 singly or in pairs, along the last year's or the previous year's branch, 

 •upon very small spurs, and in some instances upon no spurs at all. 



