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the Bush Alpine, (having no runners,) perpetual bear- 
ers, if kept liberally supplied with moisture. They 
deserve much more extensive cultivation than they 
now receive. With their assistance, we may enjoy 
strawberries not one month only, but fowr months. 
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APPENDIX F. 
LETTER FROM B. V. FRENCH. 
BRAINTREE, Mass., August 26, 1853. 
R. G. PARDEE, Esa. : 
DEAR Sir:—I regret to say that the culture of the 
strawberry, with its varieties, is not so well under- 
‘stood as I could desire. 
The culture I would recommend would be, in a 
yellow sandy soil, trench to the depth of two feet at 
least; this should be made rich by high manuring, to 
which I would recommend a generous supply of muck 
(decomposed vegetable matter) and spent tanner’s 
bark: the whole should be finely mixed in with the 
loam at the time the beds are made up. If the ground 
should be so situated as to admit an ample supply of 
water, it would be of great service, judiciously applied. 
The beds should be made, for convenience, about three 
feet wide, the paths one and a half foot. The plants 
should be grown from the runners of the previous 
year’s growth, and the strong ones only made use of, 
taken up from the ground, just as the new leaves begin 
to grow, with as much of their roots on as possible, 
