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or five different importations of plants of the Crescent 
Seedling, by the steamer and otherwise, until at last 
we succeeded in causing them to grow, and awaited 
their bearing season, when, alas! they only bore a 
moderate crop, and ceased bearing as early as any other 
variety in our ground; thus proving a failure, as far 
as perpetual bearing was concerned, under our ordina- 
ry mode of cultivation. The plant has extraordinary 
vigor, a rampant staminate, exceeding all varieties we 
have ever seen in multiplying its runners. The ex- 
periment convinced us that it was not the variety, so 
much as the cultivation and soil, which gave it its con- 
tinual bearing properties. Some experiments since 
made with this variety, in soils so reduced as to be 
little else than coarse sand, favor this idea. Mr. Law- 
rence wrote me at the first, that he reduced his soil by 
three-fourths of pure river-sand; and, although I re- 
duced my garden-soil considerably, yet it remained 
still very much too rich for the Crescent Seedling to 
develop its perpetual properties. The various experi- 
ments, however, were by no means lost. An account 
from Mr. Lawrence’s pen will be found in our article 
B, in the Appendix. 
About this time, it was announced by the press that 
Charles A. Peabody, Esq., the horticultural editor of 
the Soil of the South, near Columbus, Georgia, had suc- 
ceeded, by reducing the soil, and with plenty of water, 
