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manville, at Lament and Grandville, every landing should 

 have hundreds of acres from which strawberries are gath- 

 ered. Our crop here arrives in Chicago and Milwaukee in 

 much better condition than the crop of South Illinois, because 

 our water transportation is so much better for this delicate 

 fruit, and, being later, the strawberry season would be greatly 

 prolonged in the cities across the lake, by the more extensive 

 culture which the future will undoubtedly develop. Small 

 shipments are always unprofitable; large shipments are alone 

 productive to both grower and dealer. 



As a society, we should endeavor to so extend the culture of 

 each fruit adapted to our climate, as will give Michigan prom- 

 inence, not only in the quality of the fruit produced, but 

 likewise in the quantity, so that the eastern shore of our noble 

 lake shall become the resort of ambitious buyers who will find 

 it profitable to come hither to purchase our products. To this 

 end a large quantity as well as a good quality of fruit must be 

 produced. A small shipment attracts no attention and can 

 scarcely find a purchaser. A large cargo commands the market 

 and secures the competition of buyers for the prize. 



Much has been said about the profits of strawberry growing. 

 When well attended to, the strawberry interest is a good one, 

 and no business is profitable that is not looked after. 



My aim has not been to give full directions in strawberry 

 culture, — this is done in many useful little manuals, — but to 

 throw out such suggestions as have occurred in the course of 

 a few years' experience, and to awaken an ambition among our 

 fruit-growers to excel in the production of what Mr. A. J. 

 Downing describes as "Arcadian dainties" * * "the most 

 wholesome of all fruits." 



CONCLUDING SUGGESTIONS. 



The principal objection to the very extensive production of 

 strawberries, the perishable character of the fruit, seems likely 

 soon to be overcome. At a recent meeting of the Horticult- 

 ural Society of Black Lake, Captain Walker stated that by 



