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One portion was so stony that it could not be plowed; another so wet and sour that even grass would not grow upon it. A third portion was not only swampy, but liable to be overwhelmed with stones and gravel twice a year by the sudden rising of a mountain stream. There was no fruit on the place except apples 212 and a very few pears and grapes. Nearly all of the land, as I found it, was too impoverished to produce a decent crop of strawberries. The location of the place, moreover, made it very expensive - it cost $19,000 · and yet during the third year of occupancy, the income from this place approached very nearly to the outlay, 213 and in 1878, during which most extensive im214 provements were made in the way of draining, taking out stones, etc., the income paid for these improvements, for current expenses, and gave a 216 surplus of over $1,800. In 1879 the net income 212 212 213 212 216 217 217 217 218 THE REV. E. P. ROE'S SUCCESS WITH "Doubtless God could have made a better berry (than the strawberry), but doubtless God never did." -DR. BO TELER, as quoted by Izaak Walton. CONTENTS: Preliminary Essay. The Fruit Garden. Small Fruit Farming and its Profits. Strawberries - the Five Species and their History. Ideal Strawberries versus those of the Field and Market. Choice of Soil and Location. Preparing and Enriching the Soil. Preparation of Soil by Drainage. The Preparation of Soils Comparatively Unfavorable. Commercial and Special Fertilizers. Obtaining Plants and Improving our Stock. When Shall we Plant? What Shall we Plant? Setting Out Plants. Cultivation. A Southern Strawberry Farm and Methods of Culture. Forcing Strawberries under Glass. Originat ing New Varieties - Hybridization. Raspberries - Species, History, Propagation, etc.; Pruning, Staking, Mulch ing, Protection, etc.; Varieties of the Foreign and Native Species. Rubus Occidentalis-Black-Cap, and Purple Cane Raspberries. The Raspberries of the Future. Blackberries Varieties, Cultivation, Pruning, etc. CurrantsChoice of Soil, Cultivation, Pruning, etc; Propagation, Varieties. Gooseberries. Diseases and Insect Enemies of Small Fruits. Picking and Marketing. Irrigation. Sug gestive Experiences from Widely Separated Localities. A Few Rules and Maxims. Varieties of Strawberries. Vari eties of Other Small Fruits. Closing Words. was considerably larger. In the three hundred pages that follow, Mr. Roe goes on to tell how he did it. But if it were not for his emphatic declaration to the contrary, we should say that successful fruit farmers, like poets, are born, not made. On this point, however, he encouragingly says: The method is this: First learn how yourself, and then let your laborer thoroughly understand that he gets no wages unless he does as he is told. Mr. Roe takes more than a merely aesthetic view of his vocation : As mere articles of food these fruits are exceedingly valuable. They are capable of sustain ing severe and continued labor. For months together we might become almost independent of butcher and doctor, if we made our places produce all that nature permits. Purple grapes will hide unsightly buildings; currants, raspberries, and blackberries will grow along the fences and in the corners that are left to burdocks and bram bles. It is certainly a very attractive picture which Mr. Roe draws of the pursuit in which he has been so successful, and the minuteness with which he describes his principles and processes makes his treatise as practical to guide one's efforts as it is eloquent in awakening one's enthusiasm. He has not confined himself to his own farm, but gives considerable space to observations of fruit culture elsewhere, especially at the South, his interest in the work having The general scope of the book is justly indicated by the table of contents. The associates of the strawberry come in for careful treatment, and the style, while light and pleasant, is never frivolous or trifling, but always serious and instructive, approaching at points a distinctly scientific form. Particular attention is paid to the important subject of draining, and to different methods of planting and cultivation; and there is a large amount of information respecting the almost innumerable varieties of the fruits under consideration. The basis of the book is, of course, the articles which have been appearing of late in Scribner's Monthly; but these have been much extended for their present purpose. The illustrations are many and beautiful, and the volume is in every way as sumptuous as it is intelligent and substantial. THE VIRGINIA BOHEMIANS.* THE HE Virginians owe Mr. John Esten Cooke a debt of gratitude for the industrious manner in which he has endeavored to rescue from oblivion the memory of colonial and continental Virginia, as well as the Virginia of the old régime, now rapidly passing away. In no portion of the Old Thirteen was the colonial period so unique and picturesque, so different from the other States, as in the Old Dominion. Mr. Cooke has done much to preserve this coloring of the past in Henry St. John, Gentleman, and other novels of this stamp; and we hope that the rich vein he has worked so successfully he will continue to follow out, instead of coming down to our prosaic modern epoch, of which there is so little to be said in praise. This latest novel of Mr. Cooke's is post bellum, and turns a good deal upon the troubles aroused by a band of somewhat desperate characters who distilled and traded in illicit whisky. Their haunts were deep in the mountains of the Blue Ridge, and they were widely known as "Moonshiners." Several of the most dramatic scenes in the volume have to do with these wild mountaineers; and one of them, Daddy Welles, is about the most original and piquant personage of all the moving panorama. Mr. Cooke has astonishing skill in mingling and intermingling interminable plots; he drives his winged horses four-in-hand, and yet never seems to get the reins entangled. In the present tale there are no less than four distinct love stories; and so well managed are they that the reader cannot say that one takes precedence of another, either in interest or execution. It is hard to determine |