Sixth

Be prepared to invest considerable capital in small fruits before it becomes successful. Your first crop of strawberries will rarely ever pay more than enough for the expense of plants and planting; the second crop will hardly pay for the berry baskets, and the third crop will only give a margin for making up deficiencies here and there. It is only after the third year that profits can be counted.

Sketches Of New England Divines

Giving true and Interesting biographical sketches of the following distinguished divines: John Cotton, Richard Mather, Roger Williams, Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, Hosier Mather, John warham, Jesse Lee, Jonathan Edwards.Eiyah Redding, Timothy Dwight, Wllbnr Flak, Sara Stiles, Lemuel Heynee, Billy Hibbard, Timothy Merritt, Jonathan D. Bridge, Nathaniel Emmons, Joshua Crowell, George Pickering, Stephen Olin.

Slack Prince - (The Best Of Its Class)

Nearly black; a fine, large, and full flower, very attractive.

Small Beds

No. 1, plant wholly in geraniums - Gen. Grant; No. 2, Centaurea in center and Alternanthera versicolor outside; No. 8, Pampas Grass in center, with remaining surface of bed covered with creeping Ivy,

Small Fringed Gentian - Gentiana Detonsa

This species grows in various parts of the country. It is a wild flower of extreme beauty, and worthy of cultivation. It is found on lime-stone rocks, Goat Island, Niagara Falls, Irondequoit, and we have found it on the borders of the Norman's Kill, near Albany. It is supposed to be annual. Flowers yellow at the base, with a bright blue top beautifully fringed like the pink. It is a very pretty plant, and would show well in the garden.

The Small Fruit Recorder

This is to be enlarged to double its present size, and published at $1 a year, for 1871. It is a wide-awake, entertaining little sheet.

Small Fruits An Aid In Support Of One's Family

One of our correspondents writes us that his first trial in the fruit line, to relieve from the expense of bread and meat, was growing strawberries. He says he commenced with twenty feet square, and increased in two years to nearly one eighth of an acre, set six kinds mixed together, and that patch of ground furnished all the berries the family and children could use, besides realizing from sales a surplus of over seventy dollars a year. Another of his reliances was the sour cherry, and he practices heading his trees in each year, taking out small crossing limbs, and obtains fruit in great abundance, and he says of larger and superior size to that of his neighbors who practice the let-alone method.

Small Fruits For Family Use

IN a short time those who desire to put out new beds of small fruits must begin to make the necessary preparations.

We do not propose to give, in this article, any instruction as to the mode of planting, but will reserve that matter for the next number of The Horticulturist.

We wish to speak of those varieties of fruits which have been found, under all circumstances, to do well; at least south of Ohio, and in the West.

One great error which many persons fall into, is that of planting too many kin'ds. Another is, in buying a few plants of every new variety which is placed before the public with high-sounding names and many "certificates" of excellence.

The safer and wisest course to pursue is, to ascertain the names of two or three sorts, which experience has taught you to be good, and plant no other, unless you are an amateur cultivator, and desire to try experiments.