APPENDIX. 
APPENDIX A. 
THE STRAWBERRY AND ITS CULTURE. 
BY CHARLES A. PEABODY, OF COLUMBUS, GEO. 
THAT eminent horticulturists are liable to be mistaken 
in their views of culture, as well as of the origin and 
history of plants, as any other class of men, we have 
ample proof in the conflicting opinions of the nature 
and culture of the strawberry. Downing says: ‘The 
strawberry is the most delicious and most wholesome 
of all berries, and the most universally cultivated in 
all gardens of a northern climate.” Again he says: 
“The strawberry properly belongs to cold climates, 
and though well known, is of comparatively little value 
in the south of Europe.” With this high authority, 
the horticulturists of the South never dreamed of cul- 
tivating the strawberry to any extent, although the 
woods and fields were covered with the wild fruit. It 
was a knowledge of the fact that the wild strawberry 
grew all around me, that induced me to try strawberry 
culture at the South. I do not believe there is a plant 
in nature that so easily adapts itself to soil, situation, 
and climate, as the strawberry. In many of its homes, 
however, it produces little or no fruit, spreading itself 
rapidly by its runners. 
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