NEW WESTERN FRUITS. 
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dedly high merit as dessert fruits, especially Plumb’s Nos. 1 
and 2, which are delicious, sub-acid, fine grain and tender ; also 
Brier’s Sweet, by A. G. Tuttle, which mieasures two inches and 
a quarter in diameter, very sweet and rich. 
We congratulate the whole country on the addition of these 
peculiarly hardy fruits to the list of our staple luxuries. The 
demand for such fruits will not be confined to particular re¬ 
gions. They are valuable in every section, and especially so 
in the extreme northwest. The only, and we may say the 
great danger, lies in running after these sorts too exclusively, 
and to the neglect of some others much better, which in some 
cases might be substituted ; but even in this case, the Siberian 
sorts will serve a good purpose, namely, as stock to work the 
other varieties on ; so with all fidelity to the one great object 
in view, a plentiful supply of fruit for the masses, we say press 
on, import, plant seed, hybridize, or anything else, no matter 
what or how, so that we have good fruit, aud that in abun¬ 
dance. 
