APPENDIX. * 468 
Now, if the cultivator would know the secret of my 
haying strawberries six, eight, and even ten months in 
the year, in the hot climate of Georgia and Alabama, 
it is this: proper location, vegetable manures, shade 
to the ground, without exhaustion; and water to the 
bloom and fruit. 
One reason why so many fail in garden culture with 
the strawberry is, that the beds are surrounded by trees 
and shrubbery, which may produce one crop of fruit 
in the spring, but rarely more than that, unless it 
should prove a very wet season. The strawberry-bed, 
whether in the garden or the field, should have no tree, 
plant, or shrub near enough to it to take the moisture 
from the earth. The plants require all the moisture 
from the atmosphere and the earth around them. 
Whether the strawberry was originally found in cold 
climates, or not, I find they readily adapt themselves 
to any climate, and very soon become indigenous. I 
doubt whether there is a State in this Union that can- 
not produce the strawberry months, instead of weeks, 
in the year, with proper culture. And when we take 
into consideration the ease and simplicity of its cul- 
ture, its continued bearing and productiveness, its 
exemption from all insect depredations, its delicious 
flavor and healthy influence upon the system, it ranks 
first in importance among the fruits of the earth. 
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CoLUMBUS, Ga., August 22, 1854. 
Mr. R. G. PARDEE: 
DEAR Srr:—I find tlfe strawberry running into a 
