Raspberries In Rows

We notice A. M. Purdy, an extensive grower of raspberries, states that he prefers growing the canes in rows or hedges rather than in hills, as being more self-sustaining. This is in accordance with a practice we named last year as followed by a good cultivator both with raspberries and blackberries, and has been our own practice for some half dozen or more years. A light dress-ing of rotted compost or manure, sprinkled among the canes in autumn and forked in lightly in spring, we also find to pay well in the crop of fruit. Mr. Purdy also states that he practices cutting in the new growths when about three feet high, as we have repeatedly advised, and finds it successful.

Raspberries. Allen's

Mr. Prince: Is productive, and is like the English Bed Cane of the London Horticultural Society. Mr. Barry: Old; long ago cultivated and lost, now renewed. Best not to name it at present. Mr. Judd: Hardy fruit fine. Mr. Vail, N. Y.: In Westchester County has proved hardy, and fruit very fine. Also so with Mr. Seymour of Connecticut.

Raspberry Wine

Mr. Doolittle has sent us a bottle of wine made from his new Raspberry. It would more properly be called a cordial, and will make a pleasant, cooling drink for summer.

Ravenscroft Watermelon

This valuable Watermelon originated with Col. A. G. Summer, of South Carolina.

Size, large. Form, oblong. Skin, dark green, faintly striped and marked with green of a lighter shade, and divided, longitudinally, by sutures, from an inch and a quarter to two inches apart. Rind, not more than half an inch in thickness. Seed, cream color, tipped with brown at the eye, and having a brown stripe around the edge. Flesh, fine red, commencing abruptly at the rind, and extending to the centre. Flavor, delicious and sugary. Quality, "best".

Rawles' Janette Or Geneting

Dr. Warder said this was the winter Apple of southern Ohio, Kentucky, Ac, but he was afraid it was not generally known through the State, especially in the north. Several gentlemen from different parts of the State said they knew it, and approved it highly. Recommended unanimously.

Read's No. 1

Plants set out this spring. The few berries produced were of good size, of a broad-conical form, very dark color; flavor, sprightly and excellent; promises to be productive and valuable.

Reading Pear

Size, rather large, 3 1/4 inches long by 2 3/8 broad; form, pyriform, tapering to the crown; skin, greenish-yellow with numerous dots; stem, 7/8 of an inch long by 1/16 thick, somewhat fleshy at its insertion; cavity, none; calyx, open, segments erect, set in a narrow, very superficial basin; cone, medium; seed, dark-brown, long, acuminate,. 1/2 inch long, 1/4 broad, 1/7 thick, many abortive; flesh, greenish-white, somewhat granular, juice abundant; flavor, sprightly, vinous; quality, "good;" maturity, January to March, even to May.

Wood, young shoots slender, yellowish-olive; old wood, gray-olive.

Reading Road Nursery

It will be perceived, by outadvertising columns, that Mr. Heaver proposes to sell out, this fall, at auction. This will present a good opportunity for those in search of nursery stock.