382 EVER-BEARING STRAWBERRIES. 
in making two well-known northern varieties—the 
Large Early Scarlet, and Hovey’s Seedling—develop 
perpetual bearing qualities under the hot summer’s sun 
in Georgia, furnishing fruit in quantities, from March 
til January. It was but reasonable to conclude, if 
this was the case in Georgia and New-Orleans, much 
easier could we hope, by the same means, to extend 
our strawberry season north, durmg the months of 
July, August, into September. In October last, in an 
interview with Mr. Peabody, he gave it as his delibe- 
rate opinion that, by the process he detailed and pur- 
sued, we could easily have an abundance of fruit from 
our strawberry vines until frost came. We take plea- 
sure in inserting Mr. Peabody’s plan and directions in 
full, in his interesting articles, in the Appendix, A. 
On the 20th December last, Mr. Peabody took up a 
few plants in fruit from his garden, and placed them, 
with the soil attached, in a basket, and sent them by 
express to Messrs. J. M. Thorburn & Co., 138 Jolin 
street, New York. On their arrival, on Christmas day, 
they were well loaded with large, ripe Hoveys and 
Early Scarlets — unmistakably so—together with a 
large variety of green fruit, of all sizes, from that of a 
pea upwards to full-grown berries. They remained on 
exhibition in their windows some two weeks, when 
they were politely handed to us, and we had them 
potted in a green-house, with soil composed mostly of 
