MANURES. 17 
ties and of enormous size, in the use of animal ma- 
nures, yet we think the quantity and quality would 
have been decidedly increased by the use of vegetable 
instead of animal manures. The latter causes the 
plant to run too much to vines, and start its runners 
before it has even perfected the earliest part of the 
first crop of fruit, besides filling the earth generally 
with seeds, and undecayed portions of the straw, and 
fibrous portions from the barn-yard, which come into 
injurious contact with the numerous fibrous roots of 
the plant in its progress in the earth, which should 
always be kept as pure for the strawberry as possible. 
Leaf-mould, decomposed turf or peat, well composted 
with new surface soil, or muck, ashes and lime, is a good 
manure for the strawberry. We wish it, however, 
distinctly understood, that few good soils need enrich- 
ing at all for the strawberry ; on the contrary, most of 
the soils (for instance, those in Western New York) 
would be more benefited by being depleted by an 
admixture of half river-sand. 
It will be seen from the interesting articles in our 
Appendix A, from C. F. Peabody, Esq., near Colum- 
bus, Georgia, that his own observation and experience 
have led him to the same conclusions. Other cultiva- 
tors might also be named who have arrived at similar 
results. 
It is far better to feed the fruit properties instead of 
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