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Doubtless some of your readers in Canada have seen strawberries pro- 

 duced at the rate of 12,000 quarts per acre with a single crop, and without 

 very much foliage. If any of your readers who are growing strawberries 

 the second or third time on the same ground, have succeeded in procuring 

 more than half that quantity per acre, they might tell us what they put on 

 the land, how it was applied, and what the cost of it. Or perhaps they 

 might tell us what ingredient their soil contains, which makes it continue to 

 produce strawberries abundantly. Many others besides myself would be 

 very thankful for such information. 



Thirty years ago the celebrated nurseryman, Mr. \Vm. B. Smith, ot 

 Syracuse, told me that I need never attempt to raise a second crop of apple 

 trees on the same ground. I highly valued his opinion, 3'et in my conceit 

 at that time I thought that with plenty of manure and hardwood ashes I 

 might succeed. I tried it thoroughly, and most thoroughly failed. 



Ignoring that worthy gentleman's advice in this one instance cost me 

 many hundreds of dollars. 



I have seen many decaying old orchards cleared off and replanted with 

 young trees ; but no matter how well the ground was tilled and manured^ 

 the second planting has almost invariably resulted in failure ; this I attri- 

 bute to the want of that mysteriously necessary element which has been 

 extracted from the soil by the old orchard trees. 



Whole districts in -which strawberries were profitably grown a few years 

 ago are now fruitless. Will the country cease to produce this delicious 

 fruit ? I hope not. 



Cataraqui, Ont. D. NICOL. 



A PROFITABLE PLANTATION OF RASPBERRIES. 



IE wholly disapprove of making public the great successes which a few 

 growers of fruit have had and the hiding of the reverses and discour- 

 aging failures of others ; because the world is so full of greenhorns 

 that some will be sure to catch the notion that a fortune awaits them if they 

 can but purchase a fruit farm ; yet we must be honest and give the bright 

 side when it does appear. The other day it was a St. Catharines grower, 

 whose bean story almost equalled a Yankee squash story, according to which 

 he harvested seven tons (?) of green beans off from one acre of ground and 

 sold them to a factory near by ; but to-day it is a Grimsby fruit-grower 

 who has just finished harvesting his Cuthbert raspberries. He says that 

 he has picked one hundred and seventy crates, of twenty-four quarts each, 

 off from three-quarters of an acre of ground ; or over four thousand quarts. 

 Now, these were all extra fine in size and worth on an average ten cents a 

 quart in our city markets, or about §400 for the produce of the one acre. 



