the JEWELL strawberry, 
jV,r the past two sciisous wo have wm ,.! , 
, 1,18 aow Strawbon-y with o,>n8lclo,,a,io 
torost, and the move we saw of it ti,,. ? 
favorably did we beeonio l>ni>ioss,Hl\vlt^^,‘”iI!: 
,al„«blo qualities, 'i'ho .rowell is „ soo.l i ! 
af either.Torsey Queen, or Prinoo of iJo, ‘ ^ 
^, 8 odlnl 880 byl^M.Aui,nu•&J^"M^^^ 
aleflcld, Conn. Krom the 11, st year of ‘ 
oslstoneo the plant showed n„«8„,^, . 
produetlveness, which qualities it hal 
so far retained sullloiently 
'■ios large to 
t ■ • 
introduction for general ‘ trial ‘'amra'i'’ 
'fhe flowers are pistillate; bcrr' ' 
very lai'ge, of good 
unlfonn size, most¬ 
ly obtuse-conical, 
rarely irregular; 
very handsome and 
Arm, color! bright 
red changing to 
crimson when fully 
ripe; quality good 
and highly satisfac¬ 
tory to the taste of 
most people, and al¬ 
though not possess¬ 
ing a high degree 
of aroma, it is en¬ 
tirely free from the 
acidity so objection- 
• able in our leading 
market berries; fo¬ 
liage large, vigor¬ 
ous, healthy, and 
free from blight; 
season medium to 
late, holding out re¬ 
markably well. 
Its productive¬ 
ness under good 
cultivation is sim¬ 
ply enormous, while 
even under less 
careful treatment it 
will yield very large 
crops. From one- 
twenty-sec ond 
part of an acre on 
the originator’s 
grounds were 
picked during the 
season, 678 quarts, 
making a yield of 
11,916 quarts, or 466 
bushels per acre. 
As this does not in¬ 
clude the many ber- 
ries and bunches 
picked by visitors, 
Ihe number of 
"^hich was very 
Sreat, it may be 
®We to Msume that 
‘be entire product, if it could have 
on om'twifgvo 'veil 
N. Y. ^ oiiiids ,11 Westchester Co., 
0*' '^''roceii'iri"!!* ‘"Sotliei- we do not know 
"oouHoefte,,^8iw!, ! ‘"at has 
friends wl,p,'cvei'^ 
l)oi„t—If snuh i',. "'C'lh 
stands ,'atl,oi- lif I culled—is th.atit 
qualitv l>,n . ‘"o '‘ighost standai-d of 
werc delh / of Htrawhenles 
.' own , "y ‘"0 originator we,-e 
wn under Irrigation, which, as it is well 
ABOUT FIG TREES. 
“Will Pig trees that are planted out in the 
gai'den boar bettor than those that are grown 
in boxes, and wintei-ed in the cellar; how 
deep sl,ould they be planted; and in burying 
for winter should they be first covered with • 
straw, or with earth only?” 
Answer hy Wm. Falconer. 
Fig trees planted out bear better than 
those in l)oxes, .and with far less trouble. 
You ai-e more certain of a crop from young 
plants that ai'e grown in tubs or boxes than 
you would be from the same sized or aged 
plants that are planted out, but the out-door 
plants can become 
large bushes, hence 
have moi-e fig-bear¬ 
ing wood than box- 
grown ones. All the 
care the out-door 
Fig trees need is to 
bend them down 
and peg them flat 
to the ground, and 
bury them about a 
foot deep with earth 
in the fall, and un- 
eaith them again in 
spring. M}. neigh¬ 
bor, Mr. Barlow, on 
Long Island, gets 
enormous crops oft 
his Pig trees, 
treated in this waj'. 
When planting 
Fig trees plant .as 
you would any 
other bush or 
shrub; shake the 
earth from the roost 
and spre.ad them 
out. Thei'e is noth¬ 
ing delicate about 
the rooting of a Fig 
tree. It roots easily. 
. In burying for 
winter, use e.a,'th 
only. Straw or 
litter would be cosy 
winter quarters for 
field niice, andpeel- 
ing the Fig trees 
capital amusement 
for tile mischievous 
rodents. 
been 
thiin 
■Peasured, would have been not less 
■^*c hundred bushels per acre. On many 
Sic plants we have counted over 100 ’ 
we have seen a full quart of 
from a single plant at one 1”°^.^^^ yery 
^e, these wonderful results weie 
®der most favorable conditions, .. 
^tivation, and . by occasional irng ’ 
®verthele88 on other parts of icpr 
.less careful treatment, the yield was pio^ 
gonateij^Targer'The same was 
^ew Jersey where we have seen 
-ulL S.ZE BERRY. AND BUNCH REDUCED ONE-THIRD. 
the JEWELL STRAWB fruitS. 
kno\yu, ,vovvn grounds, a rather stiff, 
Berries fio quality, 
clay l«am, advanced. Co.n- 
improvmgas t 
pared ® cf this class, it is certainly a 
■"‘‘■■'^rrdvaiiee^ and as a variety for 
ma.i""%°\2Tis'an exact photographic 
of a bunch, reduced one- 
representatioi ,0 berry 
SHORT OUTTIHGS. 
Peach Borers lay 
then’ eggs on the 
bark of Peach trees, 
near the base of the 
stem, during July 
.and August. The 
young larv® as 
soon as h.atehed work their way into the 
bai-k, and now, before they have had time 
to do much harm, they shouid be dug out 
and destroyed. By covering the cuts thus 
made, and mounding earth around the stem, 
the wounds will soon heal. 
Black-cap Easpberries rootfi'om the tips of 
the new canes, and when it is desired to prop¬ 
agate them largely, the ends of the new 
shoots should be layered, that is, covered 
with some soil, not more than is snffleient to 
hold them down, although some tips will 
take root without this precaution. 
