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their texture. He pronounces the Turner to be as hardy as a burr-oak 

 and wonderfully productive, whfte the fruit, though of good size, is too 

 soft for long shipments. The Cuthbert he thinks to be too dark in 

 color, but otherwise good. His largest reds are the Delaware and 

 Clarke, selling for the highest prices in home market. He says, 

 however, that he would not exchange the Philadelphia raspberry for 

 most of the new sorts, its yield being immense, far beyond that of any 

 red sort, and selling quick for ten cents per quart for making into 

 raspberry jam. 



On the subject of cultivation, he recommends liberal manuring and 

 good cultivation for the black raspberries, and planting them in 

 continuous rows, but prefers to grow the red raspberries in hills, so 

 that the cultivator can be run both ways, and the suckers kept down 

 by the knife attachment which runs just below the surface, and not 

 to manure them as abundantly as the black varieties. 



THE ENGLISH CAREOT. 



Mr. Editor : — Can you ov some of your reader.s tell me if the English 

 Carrot ever becomes a weed in any part of the Dominion. I ask because 

 we must add its name to the long list of imported plants which are running 

 wild and becoming a nuisance in this neighborhood. Two years ago it was 

 completely unknown, but I have had four or five enquiries during the past 

 few weeks for the name of this new pest. This alone will show how gi-eat 

 a stranger it is. I am told that it was introduced from Toledo with 

 timothy seed. Be this as it may, there is one district south-east of this 

 town where not a head could be seen two years ago, but where the carrot 

 now is as common as the yarrow, also imported. I am the more confident 

 on this point because it is on the road that I most frequently travelled on 

 my way to the stone quarries to obtain geological specimens. This year 

 not only is it in the fields but in the adjacent fence corners and roadside, 

 probably blown thei-e during the sowing of the timothy seed. As it is a 

 biennial plant these seeds must have fallen there in 1878. One advantage 

 to the farmer is that it seeds late, so that it will be cut and taken off" with 

 the crop ; but against this must be set the other fact, that when cut down 

 it will spring up and flower again later in the season, if fertile. I say " if 

 fertile," because the Canada Thistle, which was introduced here in packing- 

 straw about ten years ago, is sterile, and never produces any seed, conse- 

 quently it is fettered by being confined to the comparatively slow process of 

 multiplication by root, and as a result the patch is not now, after ten years 

 tenancy, more than thirty or forty feet in extent, bounded on the east and 

 south by two roadways which it has been totally unable to pass. Would 

 that some other imported plants, the Purslane, Burdock and Mayweed were 

 equally imperfect. E. W. CLAYPOLE, Yellow Springs, Ohio. 



