The whortleberry, or huckleberry as commonly called, like the blackberry, is fast passing away from among us as a wild fruit; and unless some exertions are made toward its cultivation, not many years can pass ere the fruit will become a rarity in any section, and entirely unknown where perhaps now it is abundant. Although a native wild fruit, yet it has ever been confined to certain limits and sections of the country, and as soon as those sections are cleared up and cultivated, the whortleberry disappears ; while it is yet to be had in some sections for the picking, its value in the New York and other city markets is such that we feel assured it would prove a more remunerative crop than strawbeiries; and once a plantation of it is made, it is permanent, and will require but little care annually to continue it. The past season the fruit has sold as high as eleven dollars a bushel, and not below five dollars, to our knowledge. In productiveness it is surpassed by no plant or fruit producing shrub, we having often gathered a quart from a single bush, which if allowed as a rule, and we consider an acre planted with bushes, at a distance of one by three feet, would give about three hundred and eighty bushels, that, counted at the lowest price - five dollars - would amount to nineteen hundred dollars.

But we consider this a fancy estimate, and only produce it to show how the matter can be figured up. Let us take a more moderate view, and putting the crop at half a pint to a plant - certainly a safe estimate - and we have then ninety-five bushels to the acre, which at five dollars would give over four hundred dollars to the acre, an amount beyond the average of the berry crop generally.

Thus showing its value when produced, we have next to take the soil, cultivation, etc., required to produce it. In its wild condition it is found in almost all soils, from a poor, hard, thin clay, running through all the grades of sand and loam, to a deep, rich, but wet, swamp muck, so that we can have little doubt of success, plant it where we may. In its varieties, it is found wild in shade and in open bleak exposures, so that here again we have reason to look for success in almost any location ; but whether it will bear cultivation of the soil, or require the surface to be kept in turf or mulched, as it is found wild, is a point yet to be proven by practice; but that it can be grown as a crop, and profitably, we have not a doubt, and trust the subject will be so brought before our nation by some energetic person as to induce general attention and soon extensive planting.