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maturity. Of the berries now in cultivation, my choice for quahty is Taylor and 

 Agawam. Erie has not killed back this winter, as it sometimes does, but it is 

 not with me a good cropper of fine berries. Snyder is always reliable, but of 

 moderate quality. Wilson Jr., I see, is still spoken of by some as hardy, but here 

 it is hopelessly a failure. It kills down always, and even in the winters when 

 peach buds escape. Kittatinny is a noble fruit, and I get a crop from a small 

 field by bending down the canes. Wachusett's Thornless does not differ largely 

 from Snyder, and is entirely hardy. 



Few berries are badly affected by dry weather. On the whole, the key to 

 success is cool, moist soil, not wet. If planted on high land, either mulching 

 must be resorted to or frequent use of the cultivator. The Lucretia Dewberry 

 is tender, and must be laid down for winter and covered with leaves In the 

 spring I lift mine and tie to trellises. It will not pay to plant large fields. The 

 demand for the dewberry is, however, unlimited, but few persons are willing to 

 incur the labor of cultivating it. The fruit is enormously large, very rich, and 

 two weeks earlier than the high blackberries. It will not ship to a distant 

 market. — E. P. Powell, in Gardeti and Forest. 



ARRANGING HOME GROUNDS. 



E wish here to point out the gain that in many cases would result 

 from substituting a graceful curve for the straight walk in the front 

 footpath to the house, which, in ninety-nine cases out of a hun- 

 dred, prevails. The gain would be five-fold in nature : First, as 

 we approach the home from the street, it is a direct relief to the 

 eye to have the house, in which straight lines and square angles 

 everywhere abound, set off, by way of contrast, with a gentle yet 

 bold curve in the outline of the approach. Second, to approach a house from 

 such a direction that a glimpse or suggestion of its side, in addition to the front, 

 meets the eye, gives a more favorable impression than to come up from directly 

 in front, with only one side visible ; but this principle should not be applied to 

 such an extreme as to make the walk lack directness, or to give it a strikingly 

 serpentine course. Third, as seen by passers by, a residence of almost any style 

 appears handsomer when observed from the front across a stretch of lawn than 

 when seen at the end of a straight walk, directly in front of it. Fourth, the 

 advantages that have been named will appear about equally marked in reverse 

 order — to a person standing on the front verandah or looking from the front 

 windows. Fifth, in the present instance the location of a bold, irregular group 

 of flowering shrubs directly in front of the \erandah gives a better effect than if 

 the same shrubs were arranged in one or more beds on either or both sides of a 

 straight walk, as in the original plan. — American Gardetiim^. 



