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garden from twenty to sixty varieties at a time, and 

 althougli some were comparatiyely unproductiye, yel 

 the average cost of producing them for years has been 

 less than fifty cents per bushel; beside the cost of 

 gathering and value of plants, which were taken from 

 our own garden. Others can, and have done, the same. 

 We can refer to amateurs, market-men, farmers, and 

 nurserymen in Western New York, who have raised 

 them at even a smaller cost, both on. a large and small 

 scale. On a plot of ground fifty by sixty feet, we have 

 repeatedly gathered over fifteen bushels in a season, 

 under all the disadvantage of many varieties. With a 

 good selection of kinds, and good attention, it is cer- 

 tain that one hundred and fifty bushels can easily be 

 produced on an acre. We have on small beds grown 

 at the rate of two hundred and fifty bushels to the 

 acre, and we are assured that, on a larger plot, at the 

 rate of two hundred bushels per acre has been gathered. 

 It is almost as easy to raise extra-large, fine fruit, as it 

 is small, indifferent berries ; and it is a decided object. 

 Fruit of high flavor, measuring from three to four 

 inches in circumference, will command fifty cents per 

 quart in New York or any other good market, as 

 readily as small fruit will ten cents ; while the labor 

 of picking such large fruit is very small, and the pro 

 duct much larger. The demand for extraordinary 

 fruit is everywhere increasing. 



