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I have attained the object desired, viz: by keeping 
them in continual bearmg without exhausting the 
plant. I have named them the ‘“ Crescent Seedling.” 
They are a cross between Myatt’s British Queen and 
Keen’s Seedling. The fruit is very large, frequently 
measuring five and a half inches in circumference, 
conical, and the color a dark red, and highly flavored. 
I cultivate them in hills, that is to say, the plants set out 
thirty inches each way; in the growing season, manure 
the avenues and keep the soil loose. My plants are 
so luxuriant in their foliage, that neither grass nor 
weeds appear. In this way my beds yield from six 
to seven months in the year in the open air. I have 
half an acre under cultivation at this time. 
In a letter of the 9th November, he says: 
“You will at once remark how different the leaf and 
its thickness is to any plant of its species you have here- 
tofore seen. So remarkably prolific are they with me, 
that for six months the same plant is in blossom, unripe 
and ripe fruit together, so that at the expiration of the 
Jruiting season!! they are completely worn out, but 
not until they make three or four runners each, with 
which I plant anew each succeeding year. All the old 
stools die out. How different —is 1t not? —to other 
varieties of the strawberry. 
I neither cut off the blossoms nor any part of them 
to increase their bearnig: It is one continued crop from 
the first jump. 'They are all now coming into blossom, 
and will so continue until July or August. I freely 
admit that I consider their extraordinary bearing 
qualities purely accidental.” 
