1886 . 
“Wliat do you cx|)C(!l; (;o 
1 fot* tlioill?’’ I 
asked. By lateHl; aih-icos tl.ay ware a.. i 
at $2.50 1 ) 01 -quart; thaaa will prohaiq^ 'f 
q'rausportation to Naw \^ork aosts 'o 
cents per quart, and wl.au tl.ay sold -is |„w 
aa twonty-llva aauts, ha did uoi; p, 
send any more, but dispose ol' i,i,a,„ 
home. The variaty f,n'own ahielly if, 
Nounan, a.s it saaius to do bal,(.i 
garden. 
tl.a 
■er tliaii any 
others which wara beliif.' t,.'iad in a small wav 
He Imped, if tiiey did wall, to pick 20,00(1 
quarts 
, I should 
be s^lad to 
know tliat tliesa ex¬ 
pectations were i-aalized. if so, and tliey 
were to net twauty-liva cants i.ai- ((ua.-t, it 
would amount to a snug little sum. Publie 
statements of tliis kind ganei'ally loolc allm-- 
iug, wliile tlic cost of tlie cop is often over¬ 
looked or left to the imagination. Tlio cost 
of picking liere is many times giaater tlian 
any nortliern experience woulci icaii one to 
consider necess.ai'y, foi-, instead of Oiling a 
basket at tlirec or four sittings licre, the 
picker had to wander ovei- as many 
or more square i-ods to get tlie same 
quautit}^ of ripe beri-ies. 
It is dillieult for us northern bei-ry 
growers to reaiize the clianged con¬ 
ditions brought about by tliis climate. 
During tlie Strawbei-ry season lice, 
the temperature is modei-ately low 
and uniforml}^ continuous, seldom 
reacliing 80° or 90° fi-om tlie dower¬ 
ing of the plants till tlie close of tlie 
season. If this condition of things 
existed uatli us oui' licry season 
would be much prolonged, but with 
om' more rapidly inci-easing tempei-a- 
ture, our beries are liurried into ma¬ 
turity, and there is crowded into thi-ee 
or four weeks what is accomplislied 
here in two or three months. 
To follow this shipment I took the 
address of the consignee in Hew 
York and wrote a friend thee to look 
after them and i-epoit, which he did 
as follows: “The beriaes ari'ived in 
good condition, sound but rathe 
green, and sold .at 80 cents.” 
This rather diminishes the “gre.at 
expectations” of prospective profits 
from the start. In further pui'- 
suit of inform.ation on this matter, 
I find that the failures. are attributed 
to drouths and long summer — the plants 
hum up—and my conclusions are, that Straw¬ 
berries wiil not grow evei'ywhei’c, but b\ 
proper and judicious selection of location, in 
soil possessing sullicient moistui'e, tolerable 
success may be obtained. Nevertheless, the 
question of profit in its commercial aspect is 
an open one in the most favorable localities. 
Grape-seed oil is used in Italy for pui- 
Poses of illumination. The extraction is 
principally effected at Modena. It has also 
long been used for similar purposes in Gei- 
™any and the Levant. Thii'ty-thrce pounds 
of seed yield about 1.8 quarts of oil (or about 
18 per cent). The seeds of white Gr.apes 
yield less oil than those of the dark variety, 
and young vines are said to be nioi e fi m u 
In this respect than older ones. As o le 
^ench varieties, the Eossillar, Aube, an 
Herault seeds yield 2 per cent nioie 
Bordeaux seeds. The color is a go <■ eu y 
^ow,and the oil loses .about 26 per cent i 
Pnrillcation. —Corps Gras 
145 
OHIO BLAOKOAP. 
oonsumptlon of evap- 
o atu haute all kin,is, there is springhm 
adani demand for vaiaeties es|)ecially 
M acMtirn'i '^'*'0 di'ying of 
bul Kaspbcaaes fo.-n.s already an indus- 
11,0 ‘'""”*derable dimensions, and of all 
be many viirieties in cultivation, none seem 
to combine so many desirable qualities for 
drymg as the Ohio. It is of good size, Ih-n., 
and cnoianously pi'oduetive. 
Join. II. 'I'eats, of Wayne Co., N. Y 
whose extensive expeilence in g,-owing and 
evapoi'atmg fruit gives special value to Iiis 
conclusions, says: “The Ohio witl. me su.'- 
passcs m eve.-y i-espcct any IJlack n.aspbeia-y 
hiive ever ^rown. It has proved itseff 
hindy, jiroduetive, and a strong and uprhdit 
gi'owei'. Tlie fiaiit is of good size and vei-y 
firm; consequently sliips well. It is of most 
excellent ll.avoi'. Of it I can i-aise at least 
one-fourtli inoi e quai-ts per aci-e than of any 
other vai'iety. J liad last yea.' one acre on 
SHOET 0UTTIHG8. 
'I'ho importation of fruit at the poi-t of 
New York is nearly 86.000,000 annualjy. 
For all crops requiring an abundance of 
nltiogen, nitiate of soda is one of the be.st 
and clieapcst fertilizei-s. 
It is estimated that between fifteen and 
twenty million dollars’ woi-th of seeds aie 
sold iinnually in the United States. 
'I'he Woi'den is the Queen Gi-ape of the 
Mississijjpi Valley, s.ays Prof. Budd. It has 
gained a topmost place in the estimation of 
growei'S, solely by its own quiet, uiinual 
cxliibit. 
'J'lie dui'ation of vitality in seeds depends 
vei'y much on the mariner in which the.v are 
kept. Trustworthy authority states case 
in which Melons were raised fi-om seed forty 
years old. 
The difference in liai-diness in .Strawbei- 
ries, says E. B. Undei’hill, depends 
more upon the position of their blos- 
soms than anything else. If the 
blossoms look up they will be killed 
at 32°, if they look down they will 
endure 28° oi- less, according to short¬ 
ness of stems and overlapping foliiige. 
Professor M.a}mard is of the opin¬ 
ion that with the use of chemical 
fertilizers, and tlie brush, grass and 
other material growing upon unim¬ 
proved, stony land, much of it tliai 
cannot be cultivated ma}- be made to 
produce paying crops of fruit, .while 
the land that can be cultivated sliould 
be used for other purposes. 
ly. H. Hills of N. H. had a Benoni 
Apple-treein soil so poor that it made 
neither wood nor fi-uit, to which he 
applied a peck of ashes in iriidsum- 
nier, and the next year it was over¬ 
burdened with fruit, and made a foot 
of growth. This answers the ques¬ 
tion whether a soil needs potash or 
not, surer than anything else can. 
rather poor soil that yielded over 4,000 
qinarts.” A yield that pays very well indeed. 
It requires from two and a hal f to thi ee 
quarts of fresh berries to make a pound of 
dried fruit; and as the average selling price 
of evaporated Blackcaps is 30 cents pei 
pound, the returns from such a plantation 
m.ay readily be calculated. 
The Str.awberry crop of the Southwest¬ 
ern States is s.aid to be a month later than 
usual. _ 
What is not known about our mative 
Gnapes, Mr. T, V. Munson of Texas thinks, 
would All a bigger volume than any yet pub¬ 
lished relating to wh.at is known about them. 
I„ prep»tlus 
good land if you can get it, 
uoor, and enrich it if you can. U you aie 
nlantin" for home use, be sure to plant on 
planting _ you cannot get good, 
golden-yel- gays Parker Earle, president of 
A farmer in southern Connecticut, 
allured by the tree-peddlers’ picture- 
book, a few years ago planted a lai-ge orchard 
of Russian Apples. Now he wishes he had 
planted B.alduins instead, and th.at the ped¬ 
dlers had never crossed the State line. He 
should have consulted State Pomologist 
Augur, to whose article in our April' num¬ 
ber he is respectfully referred. 
Marshall P. Wilder, to whom belongs the 
credit of having first instituted a practical 
improvement in pomological nomenclature, 
proposes now to extend this movement to 
vegetables and fiowers. We heartily second 
this undertaking, and sincerely wish that the 
venerable horticulturist's life may be spared 
long enough to carry it out, and thus build 
himself a living, imriiortal monument. 
A Massachusetts correspondent is greatly 
pleiised with the Willow Twig Apples this 
spring. They came through the winter in 
prime condition, with very little rotting, firm 
and of fine flavor and texture. A. R. Whitney 
of Illinois places it as only second in the list 
of profitable Apples with him. 
