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vines on a trellis, and 216 raspberry, currant, and gooseberry 

 bushes, with ample space for a strawberry-bed, a portion of 

 which should be prepared each year for planting anew, say 

 four feet wide, which will leave eight feet for bearing-beds, 

 and give new plantations every third year. 



How TO Obtain Fruit Quickly on New Places. 



This is an inquiry that often occurs in the minds of many 

 owners of new places, or who have built new houses on un-- 

 improved spots. We can inform such residents that much 

 may be done toward an immediate supply with proper seleC' 

 tion and management, and that the assertion which they often 

 hear, that " it will take a lifetime to get fruit" from a new 

 plantation, is an absurd error. 



The quickest return is from planting Strawberries. If set 

 out early in spring, they will bear a moderate crop the same 

 season. We have repeatedly obtained a few ripe berries seven 

 weeks from the day they were set out. The second year, if 

 the bed is kept clean, the product will be abundant. Good 

 varieties will safely yield any year a bushel from a square rod, 

 or about two quarts a day for half a month. 



Gooseberries, Currants, Raspberries, and Blackberries all bear 

 at about the same period from the time of setting out. 

 Good-sized gooseberry plants, say a foot and a half high, will 

 give a good crop for bushes of their size the second year. 

 We have had a bushel of Cherry currants the third summer 

 after setting out quite small plants, from a row thirty feet 

 long. A bush of Brinckle's Orange raspberry has been known 

 repeatedly to bear about a hundred berries the same year that 

 it was transplanted— the fruit, however, was not full size. 



Dwarf Pears of the right sorts, and under right manage- 

 ment, come quickly into bearing. The most prolific sorts 

 give some returns the second year, and more afterward. 

 Among the dwarf pears which bear soon are Louise Bonne 

 of Jersey, Doyenne d'Ete, White Doyenne, Giffard, Angou- 

 leme, Clairgeau, Josephine de Malines, etc. The following 

 sorts bear nearly as early on pear stock, viz. ; Bartlett, Seckel, 

 Winter Nelis, Washington. Onondaga, Howell, Passe Colmer, 

 Julienne. 



