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Sandy Strawberries. — The Revw Horti- 

 cole recommends that, when it is desirable to 

 free the berries from sand, they be gently 

 bounced in a piece of damp muslin. By this 

 means the sand will be left clinging to the 

 muslin and the delicacy of the fruit will not 

 be impaired. 



The Concord Grape is holding its own 

 wonderfully this year, when compared with 

 what are termed " fancy " varieties. It just 

 now (Oct. g) brings 2| cents in Toronto when 

 Salem and Niagara, etc., bring only 3! to 4 

 cents and it seems to have an upward tending, 

 the writer having to-day made a sale of 500 lbs. 

 at 3 cents. When its prodigious fruitfulness 

 is taken into consideration we know of no 

 black grape that can take its place for profit. 

 We have this year gathered five tons of 

 Concords off about one acre, and this judging 

 from the yield of other vineyards, is nothing 

 unusual. 



Early Apples. — It has been the custom 

 with many Horticultural writers to say that 

 the fruit grower should avoid planting sum- 

 mer and fall apples. Now this advice may 

 do well for the farmer, who has no time to 

 market summer apples as they should be 

 marketed ; but the professional fruit grower 

 who gives his whole time to the handling of 

 fruit will find that the early apples are quite 

 as profitable as the winter varieties. Much 

 of course depends upon the proximity to the 

 market or to an express office, and upon the 

 train connections. But we, at Maplehurst, 

 have found summer and fall apples of certain 

 fancy kinds always profitable, if properly 

 handled. They need to be gathered and pack- 

 ed a few at a time, and graded into extras and 



seconds, just the same as peaches are handled. 

 Graded in this way and put in small parcels, 

 there is a ready sale for them at paying 

 prices. 



Success in Peach Growing. — Mr. J. H 

 Hale, of Massachusetts seem to have had re- 

 markable success in peach growing, in spite 

 of many previous discouragements. He stat- 

 ed before the Nurserymen's Association, 

 his orchard of fifty acres had yielded 

 him last year 17,000 baskets, and he had re- 

 ceived for them the sum of $25,000. Surely 

 this is a satisfactory income from fifty acres 

 in one season. His care in grading was an 

 important factor in getting him the best 

 prices. He employs women of taste and 

 judgment who pack all first quality fruit in 

 new baskets made of white poplar wood, and 

 great pains is taken that nothing goes into 

 this grade, except very large and perfect 

 specimens. He then labels the basket with 

 the quality, and a guarantee that it contains 

 but one grade throughout. As a result, he 

 states he can get a dollar a basket more 

 than those people who place the best on 

 top and the poorer grade below. The best 

 he .sold wholesale at from $2.50 to $3.50 per 

 basket, and the second grade $1.65 to $2.25. 



GROWING FILBERTS. 

 There are, no doubt, many lines of pro- 

 fitable horticulture that have never yet been 

 followed to any extent in Ontario, and if 

 some of those farmers who are groaning over 

 hard times, would open their eyes a little 

 wider, they might see something to there ad- 

 vantage. Nut culture has of late been much 



