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use of powdered white Hellebore (Veratrum Album), the 

 Currant Ik attractinor more notice than ever before. If re- 

 muneration be the object with iruit growers, we certainly 

 have it here. From recent minuter of the Geneva Horti- 

 cultural Society, it appears that Rev. Dr. Cannon, of Geneva, 

 from one-sixteenth of an acre, sold fifteen bushels besides 

 what he appropriated for family use. Dr. Merrell thought 

 that five tons, or 250 bushels per acre, would not be too 

 large an estimate of Dr. Gannon's yield. The l^resident of 

 the Society, Mr. J. B. Jones, btated that a friend of his in 

 Ulster county, had realized half a ton from an eighth of an 

 apre, with bushes 3J to 4 feet apart, a ratio of four tons or 

 2u0 bushels per acre. Dr. Can on received from ^4 to $5 

 per bushel, and they have brought much higher prices iu 

 New York market. But taking the lowest of the above 

 estimates in quantity and price, and we get $800 per acre, 

 a statement which may appear extravagant to those unac- 

 quainted with the new varietie-s — " Versaillaises " and 

 " Cherry," so very large and profitable. 



Mr. John Archbold, of Montreal, cultivated the Currant 

 extensively for 45 years, and with great prolit, (as well as the 

 Gooseberry). ^^^ 



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This is one of the most profitable of fruits, bringing 60c. 

 per gallon, and easily jncked. 



Of the American Seedlings, Houghton llourishcs every- 

 where, and bears enormous crops of a fine flavored but 

 small berry, proof against mildew (there are instances 

 known of its having mildewed, but these are indeed rare). 

 One cultivator, at Ottawa, planting 4 ft. apart each way 

 (2,500 to the acre) and selling at 60c, per gal , realized at 

 the rate of $1,000 per acre. 



Hakdy AnERHAX Gkapes WW Teaks. 





The reports from different parts of the Province on the 

 profits of Grape culture are so contradictory and so specu- 

 lative, that I cannot induce my readers to make large in- 

 vestments in the culture of this delicious fruit. The same 

 may be said of Pear culture, 

 j^ They both may be cultivated, but on a very small scale. 



