SITUATION. 13 
Sait A/T LOW. 
A warm, exposed, and yet rather moist location is 
the best for a strawberry plantation. 
If very early fruit be an object, select a side-hill 
gently sloping towards the south, with a liberal ad- 
mixture of small stones or coarse gravel in the soil. 
This should then be protected on the north, west, and 
east by a high closed board fence, or a live hedge; we 
have seen an artificial hedge of withered evergreen 
boughs that answered an excellent purpose, and en- 
abled the owner to realize fifty cents per quart for the 
crop, when otherwise he could not have so much 
anticipated the usual season, and would have been 
compelled to take twelve and a half cents for the same 
quantity. 
If late fruit be desired, then select a piece of land 
facing the north, and exposed. Low land is usually 
preferable to high, hilly land for the strawberry, yet 
it can easily be raised on both; a little knowledge of 
its character will enable us to remedy the defects of 
the high ground. If the situation is near a spring of 
water, where it can be irrigated, and is also susceptible 
of drainage, it is very desirable. 
Though they will sometimes succeed when partially 
shaded with trees or shrubbery, yet they are best 
