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PRCEPARTURIANS (Fig. 1). As its name implies, an early 

 bearer ; of dwarf habit. 



FRANQUETTE (Fig. 2). A large elongate nut of excellent 

 quality. Buds out late. 



MAYETTE (Fig. 3). Round nut, large, full-fleshed ; late in 

 budding out in the spring, and for that reason suitable for frosty 



PARISIENNE (Fig. 4).^Nuts large, a little elongate, even 

 outline ; excellent quality. Tree blooms late. 



SMALL FRUITS. 



The cultivation of small fruits as a distinctive feature of horti- 

 cultural enterprise becomes more prominent every day. As large 

 holdings are cut up into smaller ones, and as settlement becomes 

 denser in close proximity to larger centres of population, a desire 

 is shown by many to utilise to its full capacity small patches 

 of moist and fertile land. For this purpose, small fruit and berry 

 culture should command the attention it deserves. A great choice 

 offers to the grower, as there is hardly a locality where, provided 

 care and attention be bestowed upon it, some kind of small fruit 

 bush cannot be grown. 



BLACKBERRY (Rubus, Bramble) 



Belongs to the same family and genus as the raspberry, it 

 includes the dewberry, which, however, is not superior to the 

 blackberry, and also the wineberry, and the Loganberry. The 

 fruit is a collective mass of drupes attached to a receptacle, which 

 falls off whole and does not separate as in the raspberry. The 

 berries are small, ovate, brown or black ; some are yellowish white. 



All species of the Bramble family adapt themselves to a great 

 variety of soils and climate ; some, if overlooked, spread over the 

 land and become a pest ; cuttings strike root readily. The trailing 

 kinds require the support of a fence to keep them up, and have been 

 grown round orchards and paddocks ; they however harbour vermin 

 and birds. These berries are more suited to the cooler and 

 moister S.W. districts than to the drier inland ones. Among the 

 sorts which have done well in Australia are : Himalayas, Wilson's 

 Early, and Lawton's (New Rochelle). 

 

 CAPE GOOSEBERRY (Physalis peruviana). 



Three species of this genus are cultivated for fruit, known under 

 the names Alkekenge or Cape G-ooseberry, Husk tomato, Strawberry 

 tomato, Winter or Ground cherry. The plant is a herb, belonging 

 to the Solanaceae ; its roots are fibrous and surface feeders ; by deep 

 manuring deeper root growth is encouraged. The fruit consists in a 

 berry, of the size of a cherry, enclosed in an enlarged and persistent 



