THE STRAWBERRY. 
TuIs is the most beautiful and delicious of all our 
early fruits, and so easily cultivated and so uniformly 
productive, that every housekeeper possessing a few 
rods of ground can have no excuse for not supplying 
his table with an abundance. 
Mr. A. J. Downing said truly, ‘‘ Ripe, blushing straw- 
berries eaten from the plant, or served with sugar and 
cream, are certainly Arcadian dainties with a true para- 
disiacal flavor, and, fortunately, they are so easily 
grown that the poorest owner of a few feet of ground 
may have them in abundance.” 
In the language of Mr. P. Barry—“ To grow large, 
handsome, fine-flavored fruit in abundance, it is not 
necessary to employ a chemist to furnish us with a 
long list of specifics, nor even to employ a gardener by 
profession who can boast of long years of experience. 
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