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productiveness, though it seems to excel Frauconia in this particular. 

 It has not the high llavor of the Clarke, but it is as sweet or sweeter, 

 with a refreshing " smack" to it that used to tempt me to be late for 

 dinner oftener than any other bush on my grounds. Some Turners 

 we preserved retained their shape in the jar beautifully. Ladies, is 

 this common with preserves of this fruit ? 



Highland Hardy is another of my c^ld pets. The bush is not so 

 stocky as the Turner. It has a tendency to grow tall and spindling 

 on my soil, which I divert by pinching when between two and three 

 feet high. The winter seems to have no effect on the crop, and the 

 first pickings come in before my strawberries are all gone. Perhaps it 

 is this prime quality of earliness that makes this berry seem of better 

 flavor to me than many fruit growers assign it ; at any rate it tastes 

 very good. The fruit is about the size of the Turner, and resembles in 

 appearance and firmness poorly grown Franconias, but is sweeter. 

 The crop is not so large as the Turner I think, but from its firmness 

 and earliness it may prove a valuable market variety, and I have set 

 out quite a patch. 



Brandywine fell into speedy neglect with me. The poor quality 

 of the few berries I got, and its low reputation for flavor, led me to let 

 it choke with weeds. 



Knevet's Giant ought to be a formidable rival of the Clarke for the 

 first place in the amateur's garden. I only got four or five plants of 

 this variety to try them, and as soon as I realized liow good they were 

 I cut the roots up badly for new plants, and when well grown again a 

 passing wagon broke them down, so that I have had no fair chance to 

 test the productiveness on two year old plants. The berry is very fine, 

 larger apparently than Franconia, with frequent tendency to grow 

 double ; not quite so sweet as Clarke perhaps, but with something of 

 the same refreshing taste which I noticed in Turner. Too soft for 

 market, and not any hardier than Clarke. 



But I must not forget E. P. lioe's Pride of the Hudson. Having 

 only nine plants, which cost half a dollar each, I put them on better 

 soil, and set to work to pet them with applications of liome made 

 sup'erphosphate, wood ashes, &c., hoping to get a lot of young plants 

 to set out a large patch, and have a good taste of the berries too. I 

 got the suckers indeed, and so of course weakened the bearing plants, 

 and did not give them anything like a fair chance to show what they 



