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As to enriching if., all that may be done, with good results in the 

 fall after the cultivation of the crop, is over for the season ; but give 

 good cultivation through the season to insure a good crop the next 

 year after planting. For family supply procure three hundred plants 

 of Crescent Seedling, fifty plants of Sharpless, one hundred plants of 

 Mount Vernon, fifty plants of Manchester. Plant two rows of Cres- 

 cents, eighteen inches by two feet apart, then one row of either of the 

 others at the same distance for garden culture. 



Keep all runners off" during the season, and after the growing sea- 

 son is over in the fall — say about the first of December — cover all the 

 ground and plants sufficiently to hide them from sight with a coating 

 of hay or straw. Prairie hay or wheat straw are the best materials 

 for mulch. 



While I would recommend the four above named well-tried 

 varieties for this latitude for all purposes, I wish to notice a few 

 other varieties of great promise that have been recently brought into 

 notice. The Phelps or old Ironclad presents some remarkable points 

 of merit. It seems to be very early, very large, as the young fruit 

 now indicates, but its most distinguishing feature thus far indicated, is 

 its great promise of productiveness. On plants set only late in the 

 spring of 1884 I counted 110 berries and blossoms set on a single plant, 

 Park Beauty, set also late in the spring of 1881 is very full of fruits 

 I am testing on my trial grounds at Batler also the Daniel Boone, Jer- 

 sey Queen, Hart's Minnesota, Cornelia, Jumbo, and many new sorts. 

 The Jumbo indicates a very larga fruit. 



These new sorts, however, we hope to be able to report more fully 

 in regard to at the time of our next regular meeting. 



Plant strawberries; plant hardy, productive and well-tried sorts ; 

 give reasonable, common sense cultivation, and you will have fruit in 

 abundance as long as your neighbors and have the sweet pleasure of 

 enjoying the fruits of yoar own labor. 



