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good bush will produce five quarts, in value equal to a bushel of corn, 

 and with no more labor. 



Black Currants, are known by the names of Black Grape, Black 

 Naples, Old Black and Early Black. Two kinds only are worth at- 

 tention, the Black Naples and the Early Black, the. former for its 

 size and lateness, and the latter for its flavour and earliness ; if 

 I was to have only one sort it would be the Early Black. Their 

 culture, pruning and management are the same as above described, 

 with the exception that they do not succeed so well in warm cli- 

 mates, and even with us do best in a half shaded situation. Such 

 as on the north side of a wall or fence, but not under, or in the vi- 

 cinity of large trees which impoverish the soil. As a confection in 

 sickness, sore throat, or bronchitis, there is nothing equal to black 

 currant jelly ; they make also most excellent pies and puddings, 

 which every good housewife should know and try. If, Mr. Editor 

 these few remarks will induce any one to try and grow those ex- 

 ceedingly desirable fruits, to even approach the perfection they are 

 capable of attaining, I will not have spent this hour in vain ; or if 

 any one requires to renew the stock of those they possess, they have 

 only to take the young shoots that are about a foot long — deprive 

 them of all the buds on the lower part ; set them six inches deep 

 in rich soil, partially shaded from the sun — cut the top to within 

 four inches of the soil, and in three years they will form handsome 

 plants for removal or permanent planting. 



Yours Truly, R. Buist. 

 Bosedale, Oct. 1853. 



STRAWBERRY QUESTION. 



Cincinnati, Oct. 4, 1853. 

 When Mr. Meehan has for twenty years cultivated as great a va- 

 riety of foreign and native strawberries, as Walter Elder (a late 

 writer in the Florist) has done, and paid special attention to their 

 sexual character, he will know the Hovey's seedlings, Mc- 

 Avoy's superior, and the extra red, by the leaf, and see no changes 

 in their sexual character. Even Mr. Downing, know nothing of 



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