378 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



tution under the management of Professor Trelease. In addition to a library 

 and laboratory, this institution has an extensive garden, in connection with 

 which scholarships have been founded, and to which pupils have access on 

 special terms. Here the principles taught in the lecture are carried out in prac- 

 tice, for six years ; the garden pupils, in the earlier part of their work, having to 

 work nine hours daily in the garden. 



Our Association has, from time to time, taken up and pressed upon our 

 Government, various matters of importance, and it will soon be time for us to 

 discuss carefully a practical scheme for carrying out our wishes with regard to 

 some system of horticultural education. 



GARDENING AND FRUIT GROWING. 



While I do not believe in mixing up things too much, yet, from experience, 

 I find it best for the vegetable grower to adopt fruit growing with his business. 

 These seem tp go together, for the man who is a good gardener will make a good 

 fruit grower ; but would advise the farmer not to undertake to farm for profit and 

 try to grow small fruits and vegetables for market. Of course the farmer should 

 raise his own small fruits and vegetables, but without he has a good deal of get- 

 up about him, he will neglect one or the other, and make a failure at both. The 

 farmer should not neglect his farm work to make a few dollars from garden vege- 

 tables or a small-sized patch of strawberries. There is not much money in com- 

 mon truck to the gardener now, except for very early and late, and occasionally 

 when a good market is struck. 



The gardener's greatest money crop is the very early one. Then to add small 

 fruits to his business at the close of early crops, the strawberry would come in, 

 then the raspberry, then the blackberry ; then summer vegetables would come 

 into market. In running the two together, the gardener stands two chances ; if 

 his early crops fail, perhaps his small fruits will not. 



But, besides these reasons, there are other reasons why gardening and fruit 

 growing should go together, among which are the tools required ; they are about 

 the same, the tillage is about the same, and both require rich soil to make them 

 fairly profitable. 



In starting the raspberries, the ground can be used to good advantage in 

 gardening, and not lose the use of the ground until the raspberries come in. 

 Between the rows can be raised early cabbages, radishes or onions, or anything 

 else that is gone before the plants get very high. It is the early crops that pay 

 the gardener, for by planting early a second crop can be grown on the same 

 ground. This is only practicable where plenty of manure is used. 



The strawberry bed can be broken up after it is done fruiting, and planted 

 in late cabbage, late cucumbers, or late corn, and the ground is in much nicer 

 condition in the spring by working some late crop in the fall. We lose a great 

 deal by not thinking of such things until too late, and then we plant and work 

 our crop for no good, but for the late frost to take. The tiller of the soil should 

 put more brains in his business, and it will be more successful. — B. in Agricul- 

 tural Epitomist. 



