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CHAPTER IX. 



FALL WOKK. 



summer was pretty well over, and the various 

 duties which accompany it accomplished after 

 the manner already described ; but there remained 

 much to be performed as the cool weather approach 

 ed. ISTot only is there the regular planting season in 

 the spring, but Nature and Bridgeman permit some 

 plants to be set out and seeds to be sown in the fall. 

 September is the month for starting a strawberry- 

 bed, and as my firm resolve was to have a grand plot 

 of this best of small fruits, and as my first summer s 

 success encouraged me to continue a country resi 

 dence, Patrick was dispatched to the nearest nursery 

 to engage two thousand plants, to be delivered on the 

 breaking out of the first shower. 



Here was the chance for me to make my fortune. 

 The author of &quot; Ten Acres Enough&quot; lays it down 

 as a maxim always to buy some new and hitherto un 

 known variety, that will bear the largest fruit in the 



