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SMALL FRUIT CULTXJKIST. 



Among the very newest and largest varieties which 

 have taken premiums at the great Goosebeny shows in 

 England, I give the following twelve as the heaviest nam- 

 ed in this record : 



Red. — -Leicester's Smoker, Brotherton's Foreman, Pilk- 

 mton's Farmer. 



Green. — Prophet's Diadem, Becket's Bravo, Brother- 

 ton's Birchen Lane. 



Yellow. — Wilkinson's Oyster Girl, Eardlay's Hannah. 



White. — Shingler's Edna, Miss Soars, Walton's Annie. 



The heaviest berry weighed 29 dwt. 12 grs. ; and the 

 lightest 16 dwt. 2 grs. 



But to produce berries of the weights given requires 

 extra care, more than probably any of our cultivators 

 would be likely to give to the Gooseberry, even if our 

 climate was as suitable to its culture as that of England. 



