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Latest Report on "The Columbus " 1894. 



Mr. Carman, Editor of Rural New Yorker in issue of July 21, 1894, says : " There seems little 

 to be said that has not already been said respecting gooseberries at the Rural Grounds. Columbus is- 

 this season all that it was last. We have three bushes all laden— overladen — with large, smooth berries, 

 as large as the average foreign kinds. There is not a trace of mildew upon either fruit or foliage, 

 and the Columbus seems to us this year as last the best variety in the market for those with whom the 

 foreign kinds do not thrive." 



The Superlative Raspberry— A new foreign red Raspberry, very large and of best quality. 

 Its size, appearance and flavor commend it to all who desire the largest, handsomest and choicest 

 fruit ; highly commended. 50c. each; $4.00 per doz. 



NEW RED RASPBERRY, 



"THE LOUDON." 



This variety originated at Janesville, Wis., and is offered this fall for the first time. We 

 have not fruited it here — the description is that of Mr. E. S. Carman, editor of the Rural Neic 

 Yorker, who has tested it at the Rural Trial Grounds with the greatest auccess. 



"It is said to be a seedling of Turner crossed with Cuthbert ; large broadly conical, beauti- 

 ful red. Ripens about with Cuthbert, continuing later, and in quality fully as good as that 

 variety; very firm. Canes vigorous and virtually thornless ; foliage luxuriant and healthy. A 

 very heavy yielder ; plant very hardy." 



Price 50 cents each ; 6 for $2.75 ; 12 for $5.00. 



"Why Not Try Planting a Few More Fruit Trees 



This Year?" 



A Pertinent and Valuable Suggestion from the Massachusetts Plough/nan. 



Nothing adds more to the value of either small or large places than fruit trees. Many, or rather 

 most, of these are as shapely and as beautiful as a tree which is only ornamental. Pear, apple 

 and cherry trees add to the resources of the owner while giving such shade as the place needs. 

 Many a bare farm yard would gain in beauty and its owner in dollars by planting fruit trees in 

 the bare space. The fruit is worth to the farmer's family for food whatever it would cost him 

 had he bought it outright for food, and at that estimate it will take but a short time for the first 

 cost to be repaid. There will hardly be too many useful trees, whether fruit or not, on a farm, 

 and when one wants to sell, the fact that these tre< s are there is an inducement to the buyer. 



Profitable and Economical Culture of the Currant. 



A correspondent of the Massachusetts Ploughman says : 



" Our currant crop is important. We grow Versailles, Cherry and Fay's Prolific. The 

 best is Fay's Prolific. We grow them altogether among our trees, lecause currants really need 

 some shade. We do not plough nor hoe, but keep the field clean with a cultivator. We should 

 use stable manure for fertilizer if we could get into our orchards easily with teams ; but as it is, 

 we use about a ton of dried blood from the slaughter houses for each acre. Dried blood costs 

 thirty dollars per ton. It keeps the currants and tiees in splendid condition, vigorous and very 

 dark green, with plenty of fruit. 



" We used to trim our currant bushes, but have stopped the practice, except to cut out dead 

 wood. We have currant bushes nearly twenty years old which still bear pretty good crops. 

 Our currants are picked and marketed in twenty pound baskets. Picking is done by the day, 

 and costs about one cent a pound on the average. For currant worms we use the white 

 hellebore." 



