A friend writes us saying that from a row of the Houghton Gooseberry bushes, one hundred and ninety feet long, two years planted out, he has this season gathered and sold four and one quarter bushels of fruit, sold at two and one half dollars a bushel, giving him ten and a half dollars, or at the rate of about three hundred and fifty dollars per acre. While this may be counted a good yield for the age of the bushes, it is not much over one half of what full-grown bushes will yield, and the price we consider a very small one for the fruit. Even at this, however, it will be seen that gooseberry growing is quite as good in the way of money returns as most other fruit crops.

The following is an extract of a letter received from Wilmington, Ill.:

"Weather very dry. Oats and wheat good, and mostly harvested. Apple crop very short and wormy; blasted badly in early spring. Grapes splendid : Concord, Delaware, and Hartford Prolific vines loaded with fruit. I have one Delaware vine, four years old, that has over 100 lbs. perfect fruit on it, which is too much for it to bear; but the vine has the best of care. I have about three acres in bearing of Concord, Hartford Prolific, and Delaware. The Catawba, Isabella, and Clinton are rotting. No show of it on other varieties. I put out ten acres this spring, mostly Concord, say three-quarters Hartford Prolific, Delaware, Ives' Seedling, Norton's Virginia, Diana, Rebecca, Ioua; am fixing for six acres Delaware in spring; am satisfied it is the grape. The trouble has been in the quality of vine sent out. I have twenty-five fine vines out of 125 set. Where some of them cover a space of twelve or fourteen feet, of splendid healthy vines, loaded with fruit, others seem again not over a foot high, and have same care every way.

"R. W. Waterman."