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The next to be tried were Taylor and Agawam. These two are everyway 

 satisfactory. They are not very large berries but are fair-sized, and very prolific. 

 They are also of delicious quality. I do not care to decide between them. 



Erie has not given us fruit enough to pay. It is not entirely hardy ; and yet 

 is a very large and good berry, very round in form. Minnewaski comes out 

 this spring badly killed back. I hoped it would be all right. Till further sorts 

 are proven to be better, I shall plant Taylor and Agawam, and not give up 

 Snyder. 



Do not go very heavily into blackberries, as it is now quite a rage to plant 

 them. The policy with small fruits is to divide your work between strawberries, 

 raspberries, currants, blackberries and grapes. Then you can stand the loss of 

 one or two sorts for a year or more. Something fails to be remunerative each 

 year, but something always pays. 



I find the blackberry a very popular home fruit. It is relished by the young 

 in marmalade, jelly and canned, above almost all fruits. It is also very whole' 

 some. After sour cherries and currants I prefer all the blackberries I can eat. 

 If you do not choose to grow them for market, select a clean, cool corner for a 

 row of Agawam and Taylor for home use. 



The Lucretia Dewberry I like very much as a fruit. It is large, early, and 

 delicious ; but I am obliged at last to give it up, as being not worth the immense 

 trouble it causes. It is not hardy and it is a sprawler of the worst kind. If 

 quite hardy, however, we could afford to spend on it a good deal of time and 

 care. — E. P. Powell, in Popular Gardening. 



Pegging Down Roses. — This is another way of making our gardens more 

 interesting, and may well be done in the case of all vigorous growing roses. 

 Beds, borders, or groups of roses so treated are among the most delightful things 

 in a garden. If the long shoots of the last season's growth are pegged down to 

 the ground they will flower their whole length ; whereas, if left standing, only 

 the upper buds will break, and if pruned hard back, beauty is literally and need- 

 lessly sacrificed. A strong shoot is usually thrown up from the base of the one 

 pegged down, so that when pruning time comes, the operation here is simply to 

 cut away the old shoot and peg down the new one, and so on year after year. 

 One season of growth, another of flower, and then the shoot is cut away; thus 

 the roses are ever being rejuvenated, and the youthful vigor brings abundance of 

 bloom. 



A bed of moss roses treated in this way has certainly been one of the pret- 

 tiest things I have seen this summer. But all roses that make a vigorous annual 

 shoot can be similarly treated. Gloire de Dijon, Boquet d' Or, Reeve d' Or, 

 Madame Berard, and others of this class, often make shoots six or eight feet 

 long in one year, and what could be more beautiful than to see them bearing 

 flowers their whole length ? — Vicks Magazine. 



