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Show The Circle of Fruit. A young land ownor, who has recently re-cently undertaken to plant his placo with fruH which will jflvo Mm" a supply sup-ply tho yoar through, Inquires of tho Country Gentleman what gonoral umountof each kind would be propor for sotting out In nnswor, it would bo woll to remark in tho first placo, that such fruits as rlpon quickly in tho lummor and do not last long should bo In smaller quantities than long koop-ors. koop-ors. Hut when dltroront variotles of tho samo kind glvo a succession moro will bo wanted ihnn If they all coma at once. Tho strawberry la tho first In' Jho season to rlpon, but by planting ho earliest nnd latodt varlotios with tntcrmodlnto ouca a succession may bo had for moro than a month. Tho anrllost ohorrica nro nonrly ns early as itrawborrlcs. A few wcoks later tho anrllost poars, and npplos, aud apricots rlpon, closely foilowod by raspberries and afterwards by blnckborries. Uy tho flrat of Soptombor a proper soloo-lion soloo-lion will glvo sovoral lino npplos. a nuinbor of cxuollont pears, somo do-llcioua do-llcioua plums and a throng of admlra-bio admlra-bio ponchos. Grnpoa mature noarly is soon, and may bo rando to givo a luccossiou till late in tho fall, nnd with skill in packing thoy will Inst well Into wlntor. A family supply may bo afforded af-forded by planting from flvo to ton iquaro rods of strawborrles, half a 3ozon early nnd Into chorrlos, two or three squnro rods- of raspberries, and is mnny blackborrlos, threo or four apricot trccc (In localities whero this fruit succeods), half a dozen each of early pears iiud upplo troes, a quarter of nn iicro of grapos, nnd a dozou trees anch of autumn nnd winter npplos nnd ponrs. It should not bo forgotton that caro and skill In management will lupnly ten times tho amount furnlshod through nogloct: and that a largo surplus sur-plus may rosult from tho plantings ro-quired ro-quired for scarco seasons. A propor selection of varlotios is of vital Importance. |
