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DWYER'S GUIDE. 



WALNUTS. 



Japan Walnut (Sieboldiana). — A native of the mountains of Japan. 

 An extremely hardy, vigorous grower, bears young, very productive. 



Japan Walnut (Cordiformis). — Differs from Sieboldiana in form. 

 The nuts are broad, pointed and flattened. The Japan Walnuts are valu- 

 able for both their fine fruit and shade. 



English Walnut. — It is a profitable tree to 

 plant, as it produces large crops of excellent 

 nuts, and the large quantities of ripe nuts that 

 are annually impoirted and sold here, prove the 

 estimation in which they are held for the table. 

 English Filbert, or Hazlenut. — Nut nearly 

 round, rich and of excellent flavor, admired for 

 dessert. Superior to our native Hazlenut. In 

 every way the nuts are larger, fully as good 

 in flavor. The trees are good strong growers, 

 fome into bearing a short time after being 

 planted and are annual productive fruiters. 



THE STRAWBERRY, 



" Queen of the Small Fruits." 



My life has been more closely associated with the Strawberry than 

 with any other fruit. At this period and after a protracted and uninter- 

 rupted experience of thirty-five years the reference to this fruit always 

 brings back pleasant memories of my boyhood days; the reader will 

 therefore, I trust, be considerate and indulgent with me, if I transgress 

 here, and for the moment lay aside the original purpose of this work to 

 recall some of my early reminiscences. 



It was in 1865 when I was nine years of age that I first saw a bed 

 of cultivated Strawberries. At that time I was employed grazing cows 

 along the public highway, our own cow and any of the neighbor's that 

 "were willing to pay my father twenty-five cents a week per head for my 

 services. Whilst thus engaged, and sitting on a stone wall in front of the 

 ■small fruit farm of Mr. John Sutherland (long since gone to his reward) I was 

 attracted by this bed of Strawberries in their early stages of development. 

 It is perhaps needless tor me to state that my interest was increased each day 

 as the fruit began to color and turn red, and that I found it very convenient to 

 graze the cows in that particular section of the road, and when asked for an ex- 

 planation I answered that the grass was knee high there and the cows wanted 

 to stay there all the time, but the fruit ripened and such heaps of it lay 

 there it seemed to me that every plant was producing five quarts. Now, 

 Mr. Sutherland was an average good citizen, honest neighborly, stern and 

 feared by the boys. Dare I ask him for some of those Strawberries? No, 1 

 was afraid of him, and the best I could expect would be a few berries with 

 a command to get myself and cows away from there. He would not turn 

 me loose in that patch to help myself, of that I was sure. After debating 

 the question with myself for two days, a little on what I then considred 

 the great sin of stealing in this way and quite considerable on what 



