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of confining poultry under them. Richmond, Kentish, and English 
Morrello cherries are realities with us almost every season, and so 
satisfactory that we add annually to our orchard, 100 to 200 trees. 
The larger and sweeter varieties will always flourish best in our 
dreams. I used to dream of small fruits by the acre; but the real¬ 
izations of those dreams have been so abundant as to class them 
among the pleasant, profitable, and well established facts. 
I need a vineyard; not to yield rich wines to gladden my heart, 
for my friend Kellogg says my heart is glad enough without, and 
that my head might suffer; but I have always been dreaming of 
big clusters of luscious grapes, so abundant as to be on my table 
morning, noon and night, for at least three months of the twelve. 
Can you imagine a more grateful and harmless luxury, and do you 
really know any good reason why you and I may not enjoy it? If 
not all to be had from vines grown in the open air, then let us grow 
a part under glass. A simple and inexpensive structure will an¬ 
swer, and the care and skill needed is not great; after the vines are 
put up in the spring, the necessary attention would be more like 
recreation than labor, and the two, three, or five-pound clusters 
would be a reward w^orth seeking. 
Prominent among our “ castles ” is our cranberry marsh. Ono 
or two hundred acres of sand, peat, moss, and water, afford room 
and abundant material for cranberries. All we need to do is to 
combine them in the right proportions and favorable condi¬ 
tions^ and there is no end to the cranberries we can make. True^ 
these combinations are a little intricate, and results thus far ob¬ 
tained seem a little uncertain, but with the attention and effort 
now directed to these marshes, there can be no doubt that their 
products will raj^idly increase until their aggregate value shall * 
form no mean item of Wisconsin’s wealth; 100 to 200 bushels are 
often found growing wild on a single acre. What nature, unassist¬ 
ed, has often done on one, two or five acres, by skillful manage¬ 
ment can and ought to be repeated on forty, sixty, or one hundred 
acres. 
The garden is, or ought to be, a bright and pleasant place in 
every home. A look into the far too common vegetable patch, with 
its attendant weeds, would pain rather than please us, but let us 
not go to the other extreme, and call for so much of labor and skill 
as to discourage the beginner, or the person of limited means; 
