130 APPENDIX. 
Prolific, Walker’s Seedling, and Burr’s New Pine, 
promise well. There are a great number of others 
which I have tried that are good; but if I was to have 
but two kinds, they should be the Early Virginia and 
Jenney’s Seedling; but you are aware, Sir, that these 
small fruits, which are such great luxuries, are like the 
large ones: we must try them all, and we often have 
occasion to change our minds on the trial of new 
varieties. 
Yours, with respect; 
B. V. FRENCH. 
P.S.—I have near forty varieties of the strawberry 
srowing, but they are not sufficiently tested to give an 
opinion on. 
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LETTER FROM PETER B. MEAD. 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1854. 
R. G. ParpEE, Esq.: Dear Sir— Your request, 
that I would give you a few remarks on the culture of 
the strawberry, I will now comply with, but necessa- 
rily in a brief manner. First let me say, that I am’ 
glad to learn that you are about to publish a manual 
on strawberry culture. Your long experience and 
marked success will enable you to invest the subject 
with unusual interest. 
We cannot always command just such a soil as we 
want; but we generally have the material at hand to 
