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crop. So with the Austin. On the contrary, the foreign varie- 

 ties produce better in hills. The Triomphe de Gand will not bear 

 neglect ; but should be grown in hills. It is one of the finest 

 flavored berries in cultivation. 



Mr. Robinson read another inquiry, as to the best means of 

 carrying strawberries to market. The best baskets, he said, are 

 Cook's baskets, made in New Haven. He should prefer a box 

 made by cutting two shavings from a block of wood just long 

 and wide enough, and bending them into the proper shape and 

 tying them. Such a box would be so cheap that it need not be 

 returned to be used a second time. They should be sent to mar- 

 ket in a spring crate. 



Mr. Carpenter said that in setting out strawberry plants they 

 should be mulched an inch thick with green grass. This will 

 wither and dry up by the time the plants are well rooted. 



Mr. Fuller recommended to set out strawberries from this time 

 until the 10th of September, twelve inches by eighteen apart. 

 If but one crop is desired the ground may be made rich. No 

 runner should be allowed to grow the first season. If too much 

 manure is put on, the plants will be of no value after the first 

 season; and in the neighborhood of Boston it is the practice to 

 raise but one crop from the plants. By transplanting, or dib- 

 bling out runners as soon as they begin to form a root, cutting 

 off the runner on the side next to the main plant, close to the 

 little plant, a new set of roots will be thrown out on that side, 

 and then the plants may be transferred to the main bed. — 

 Although this process makes the main bed fifteen days later, yet 

 the plants are larger, and it seems to pay for the trouble to dib- 

 ble them out and let them stand ten days. Old plants may be 

 transplanted, of scarce varieties, but the new plants are better. 

 Cook's basket costs but three cents to the quart, and the berries 

 will sell for enough more to pay for that. But it should be hon- 

 est measure. It will not do for him to yield to the demand of 

 dishonest dealers for scant measure. 



Mr. Robinson. — If he does we must expose him. 



Mr. Carpenter mentioned that the same crown never boars 

 fruit a second season. It sends up new crowns around the first, 

 and they produce the fruit. 



Mr. Fuller said that that was the way with the lily and other 

 perennials of that class. 



Subject — "Fruits of the season." Adjourned. 



