30 EVER-BEARING STRAWBERRIES. 
usual preparation, which consisted in placing a half- 
inch deep of good earth around each plant, in a circuit, 
to the width of six or eight inches, leaving the surface 
scolloped inwards towards the centre of the plant. 
The winter proved a severe one, and the old man was 
saddened in the spring, to find his fine plants drawn 
out of the ground to the length of three and four 
inches, and laid flat on the earth. One-tenth part of 
the labor he bestowed in hilling his plants for winter, 
appropriated to covering them with a little loose straw, 
would have saved them all. 
EVER-BEARING STRAWBERRIES. 
The Bush Alpines have always borne a succession 
of crops during the season, when planted in the north- 
ern shade of a fence, and well taken care of, watered, 
mulched, &c. 
Some three or four years ago, the New-Orleans Pica- 
yune announced that Mr. Henry Lawrence, a gentle- 
man of that city, had succeded in obtaining a seedling, 
called the ‘‘Crescent Seedling,’ which bore an abund- 
ance of large fruit for a continuous period of six or 
eight months or more, from March to December. We 
wrote to Mr. Lawrence, and his answer confirmed all 
the paper had stated ; and he sent us in succession four 
