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10 THE STRAWBERRY. 
Any one who can manage a crop of corn or potatoes 
can, if he will, grow strawberries.” 
During many seasons we have had on trial in our 
garden from twenty to sixty varieties at a time, and 
although some were comparatively unproductive, yet 
the average cost of producing them for years has been 
less than fifty cents per bushel; not including the cost 
of picking or expense of plants, which were taken from 
our own garden. Others can, and have done, the same. 
We can refer to amateurs, market-men, farmers, and 
nurserymen in Western New York, who have raised 
them at even a smaller cost, both on a large and small 
scale. On a plot of ground fifty by sixty feet, we have 
repeatedly gathered over fifteen bushels in a season, 
under all the disadvantage of many varieties. Witha 
good selection of kinds, it is certain that one hundred 
and fifty bushels can easily be produced on an acre. We 
have-on small beds grown at the rate of two hundred 
and fifty bushels to the acre, and we have abundant 
testimony that, on a larger plot, at the rate of two 
hundred bushels per acre has been gathered. It is 
almost as easy to raise extra-large, fine fruit, as it is 
small indifferent berries; and it is a decided object. 
Fruit of high flavor, measuring from three to four 
inches in circumference, will commend fifty cents per 
quart in New York or any other good market, as 
readily as small fruit will ten cents; while the labor 
