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your bed being quite mellow. They should, at this 
time, (in early new leaf in the spring,) be trans 
planted with the roots, to the depth of their greatest 
length. To procure the finest fruit, they should be 
planted in hills, nine inches from the paths, and eight- 
een inches’ distance one from the other. As no fruit 
is expected the first season, they should be kept clean 
of weeds, the earth to be kept mellow, and no runners 
allowed to take root. The second year you may look 
for and find a sure reward. The third year, let the 
runners take root; the yield will be about one-third of 
the preceding year, when you will have a full supply 
of new plants for a new bed: the old one, should you, 
in August, find it clear of sorrel and white clover, 
you may be classed with the neat gardener. Should 
these infest the beds, they may as well remain till the 
spring following, or till you have taken what new 
‘plants you may want, when the whole may be dug in, 
leaving your ground in a fine condition for a vine or 
root crop. In some soils the plants may want a slight 
protection from the frost. This, on the sea-coast, may 
be with sea-weed ; in the interior, with wheat or rye 
straw. 
VARIETIES.—The kind a cultivator should never 
exclude from his garden is the Early Virginia. Let 
him always keep a full supply of these; they are 
reliable when others fail. Next to this, for large ber- 
ries and a great yield, is Jenney’s Seedling. Hovey’s 
Seedling, and Boston Pine, in some seasons are very 
fine. They should be in hills, under high cultivation, 
and with me not always satisfactory. Longworth’s 
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