Geneva, have produced the present season, (18G9,) as many as five bushels per 
tree. The fruit brings in market one year with another, to $4 per bushel. 
QUINCES. 
The Quince is of late attracting a great deal of attention as a market fruit 
Scarcely any fruit will pay better in the orchard. The tree is hardy and com- 
pact in growth, requiring but little space, productive, gives regular crojis, and 
comes early into bearing. The fruit is very much sought for canning for win- 
ter use. When put up in tite proportion of about one part of Quinces to four 
of other fruit, it imparts to them a most delicious flavor. It is uniformly 
sound and fine, and is entirely free from the attacks of curculio or other in- 
sects. The fruit brought in Xew York market in the fall of ’68, $8 per bushel. 
Planted 10 feet apart, gives 4:10 trees per acre. A safe calculation would be 
one-half to one bushel per tree ; say one half bushel. This gives 21.5 bushels, 
or over .$1600 per acre. 
We have seen in Genova within a few days, a plantation three years 
planted, in which there are trees bearing one peck each. 
STRAWBERRIES. 
First of the small fruits in the month of .Tune, comes the beautiful, whole- 
some and appetizing Strawberry. Tlie profits which may result from its culti- 
vation, wlien properly conducted, are enough to satisfy the higlicst c.vpecta- 
tions. On a sandy and gravelly loam, the well-known author of the ‘'Fruit 
Garden,” !Mr. P. Harry, of I4ochester, planted Wilson’s Albany, and picked at 
the rate of almost 300 bushels per acre, averaging about $1,000. This is 
enormous, but sliows what can be done under favorable circumstances. IHr. E. 
A. Hronson, of Geneva, speaks of an acre of strawberries in Yates county, 
wdiich brought its owner $400 nett, in tlie fall of 1869. ]\Ie.ssrs. Purdy & John- 
son, of Palmyra, write us under date July 7, ’69, “Our Strawberries, (of which 
we have shipped about 800 bushels,) sold in New York for 8 to 25 cents per 
quart averaging 14 3-4 cents. Our plantation that we kept free from runners, 
growing them by the “hill” system, has yielded us 150 to 200 bushels per acre.” 
Estimate l.)0 bushels, or 4,800 quarts, at 14 3-4 cents; or 200 bushels at the 
same rate, and }’ou obtain in round figures from $700 to 900 per acre. P. & .1. 
shii> to New Y'ork and Boston, a distance of 300 to 400 miles. Plant in 
March, April, May, September, October or November. Plant one foot apart 
in rows and rows three and a half feet. The “hill” system (;onsists in keep- 
ing olf all the runners.. Mulch to keep fruit clean. 
RASPBERRIES. 
This fruit comes just after strawberries, and when properly cultivated is 
quite profitable. Jlr. II. Wright, of Waterloo, saj-s that he “has an acre and 
a half of Seneca Black Caps, and has sold 3,500 quarts, none less than 10 
cents, and since tlie 31st of July at 12 cents.” Rev. II. II. Doolittle, of Oaks 
Corners, a veteran in Raspberry culture, says tliat he averages 2,000 quarts to 
the acre, and no ordinary farm crops equal his profits, even when the price of 
Rasiiberries is the lowest. 3ies,srs. Purdy & Johnson, avho are devoted to 
small fruit culture, say “Raspberries have also paid us well, the Doolittle, 
Miami, Seneca, Davison’s Thornless, and Golden Cap, yielding at the rate of 
60 to 75 bushels per acre. While the Mammoth Cluster produces one hundred 
bushels to the acre. The fruit has averaged us 10 cents per quart, delivered at 
