254 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



Counting the expense of marketing and baskets at $ioo, we have three 

 hundred dollars as the net proceeds of three-quarters of an acre of ground 

 in the fruit district of Grimsby. Can any growers in any other part of 

 Ontario beat this ? 



Mr. Jonathan R. Pettit, for that is the gentleman's name, is the same 

 person as is referred to on page 245. He states that he began harvesting 

 his Cuthberts about the loth of July, and now on the loth of August he 

 believes there could be several more crates got by carefully going over the 

 vines, but he has given the gleanings to his pickers. Off one row, 260 feet 

 long, he has gathered over 240 quarts, or nearly a quart of berries to every 

 foot. 



Of course there are exceptionally favorable circumstances to be men- 

 tioned in explanation of all this, as will be easily supposed when we state 

 that we know of an acre and a quarter of the same kind of berries near by 

 which only yielded about seven hundred quarts. 



In the first place, and most important of all, the ground was right ; even 

 our fastidious friend Mr. Morden would have to acknowledge this. In this, 

 no doubt, lies the chief explanation. It is a rich sandy loam, somewhat 

 moist, even in the driest part of this dry season ; ground that will never 

 bake no matter when it is worked, or what the kind of season. On this ground 

 the bushes grow to an enormous height, and the fruit attains an unusual 

 size. 



How much is due to his method of pruning is yet to be demonstrated. 

 It is not in accord with the practice of most growers, but the many are not 

 always in the right. 



Constant cultivation is an important feature in his management. No 

 weeds are ever allowed to dispute the ground with the raspberry canes, and 

 these latter are always thoroughly thinned out, all superfluous ones being 

 treated as weeds. 



HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF TEN ACRES OF LAND. 



THIS was the subjectof Mr. E Morden'saddress before the Ontario Fruit 

 Growers at their summer meeting at Niagara, and as Mr. Morden has 

 himself proved what can be done with a small acreage, what he says 

 is worthy of attention. The following are some of the points made : 



The first requisite to success is the right man in the right place. By the 

 right place I mean that he should be situated near a good supply of fertil- 

 izers, and near a good local market. I do not believe in wearing out my 

 life in making express companies rich. I mean also that he should be near 

 a good shipping point, so that he can send away his surplus, and he needs 



