vl PREFACE. 
A large crop of strawberries may be expect- 
ed every year with as much certainty as a crop 
of corn, and in fact, more so; for our directions 
embrace a protection from drought, which so 
frequently lessens the corn crop. 
It will be readily seen that the author has 
not followed the rules and order usually ob- 
served in treating upon these subjects ; but has 
aimed to,say what he means, in a condensed, 
business-like way, so that he may be under- 
stood by the mass of readers. 
it does not by any means follow, that every 
one who reads this book will at once raise the 
largest and most luscious strawberries and other 
choice fruits here named, in the greatest abun- 
dance. Few persons are thorough enough to 
do any thing well at first. 
Place a new recipe for making premium 
bread in the hands of six cooks, and it would 
be quite remarkable if half of them were so 
particular as to make good bread on the first 
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