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Palmyra. The Clarke and Philadelphia have jdclded heavily also.” Mr. 
Purdy showed us one one-third of an acre of Philadelphia Itaspberries, w hich 
yielded GO bushels or 180 bushels to the acre, and told us that he got $4 per 
bushel for them. Distanee 3 feet in rows, and rows 5 to 7 feet apart, the red 
varieties 5 and the black 7. By mulching heavily with common wheat straw, 
you will save your crop in a dry season. 
CURRANTS. 
This fruit comes jiartly with the raspberrj', but follows it for several weeks. 
Indeed, none of the small fruits will remain so long upon the bush without 
injury as the Currant, and since the introduction of the newer varieties, and 
the easy method of dcstro 3 'ing the currant worm bj- the use of powdered white 
Hellebore, (Veratum Album,) the Currant is attracting more notice than ever 
before. If remuneration be the object with fruit-growers, we certainly have 
it here. From recent minutes of the Geneva Horticultural Society, it appears 
that Rev. Dr. Cannon, of Geneva, from one-sixteenth of an acre, sold fifteen 
bushels besides what he appropriated to family use. Dr. Mcrrell thought that 
5 tuns or 250 bushels per acre, would not be too large an estimate of Rev. Dr. 
Cannon’s yield. The President of the Society, Mr. J. B. Jones, stated that a 
friend of his in Ulster County, has realized half a tun from an eighth of an 
acre, with bushes 3 1-2 to 4 feet apart, a ratio of 4 tuns or 200 bushels per acre. 
Dr. Cannon received from SI to $5 per bushel, and they have brought much 
higher prices in Xew York market. But taking the lowest of the above esti- 
mates in (piantity, and price, and we get 800 dollars per acre, a statement 
which may appear extravagant to those unacquainted with the newer varie- 
ties, Cherry, Vereallaise, etc., which arc from three to five times larger than 
the old sorts, and far more productive. T. B. Wakeman, of Westport, Conn., 
says that his ten acres of Currants average over $800 per acre. 
GOOSEBERRIES. 
This fruit, to ripen, will require the same cultivation as the Currant. The 
surest method to prevent mildew is to plant thicklj' in the rows, and mulch 
deeply, six inches or more, with straw, tan-bark, coal-ashes, etc. Tfiere are 
plantations near Philadelphia thus treated, which have borne large crops for 
twenty years. The price is highly remunerative and the demand is j'carly 
increasing. The American varieties are not subject to mildew. Mr. R. J. 
Swan, of Geneva, has for a scries ofyears mulched his G-soseberries and Cur- 
rants with coal a-slies, and suffered nothing from the worm or mildew. 
BLACKBERRIES. 
^Ir. Wm. Parrjq an extensive grower of Blackberries at Cinnamin.son, X. .1., 
saj's in an essay delivered before the New York Fruit Growers’ Club, July 30, 
1868, that ‘‘ At the average price at which Blackberries have sold in market 
for ten years, a field with ordinarj' treatment will jueld from $300 to $000 per 
acre net.” Mr. Pany has ten acres of Kittatinny and thirtj' of Wilson’s Early, 
besides several acres of Now Rochelle planted thirteen j'ears ago, which still 
produce, ho saj^s, fine crops, from 05 to 80 bushels jicr acre. He says the 
berries of Wilson’s Earlj' sold in New York and Philadelphia, in 1807 and 1868, 
at 50 cents per quart, at wholesale. Other kinds of Blackberries have sold 
readil}', he adds, for several years past at from $3.50 to $5 per bushel, and last 
year for double that price. The supply can not, he thinks, equal the demand, 
and the Bl.aekbeny fills the gap in time of fruiting just after raspberries and 
