50 YALE AGRICULTURAL LECTURES. 



Nearer than this they should never grow. The beds should be 

 mulched with tan-bark, straw, or some such material, to the 

 depth of half an inch no more. This keeps down weeds, and 

 keeps all but the strongest runners from taking root. Water 

 may be added with great advantage in large quantities, except 

 during the flowering and ripening periods, provided always it 

 does not stand and become stagnant on the soil. After this 

 preparation little attention is needed. The hoe should never 

 be used about the plants, as it injures the roots. Field culture 

 differs little from garden culture. The productiveness of the 

 strawberry about New York does not average more than 40 

 bushels to the acre. There is no difficulty in raising 150 bush 

 els under the cultivation he recommended. In the winter the 

 plants should be lightly covered. 



The strawberry may be made ever-bearing by entirely pre 

 venting the growing of runners. This may be done by plant 

 ing in soil composed of three-quarters river sand and one-quar 

 ter woods-mold. This dwarfs the plant and makes it ever 

 bearing. The staminate and pistillate plants need not be grown 

 within thirty or forty feet of each other. Seedlings are easily 

 raised. The analysis of the plant differs in different places. 

 The best six varieties are Wilson's Seedling, Hooker's Seed 

 ling, Longworth's Prolific, Hovey's Seedling, Burr's New Pine, 

 and McAvoy's Superior. There are many others nearly as 

 good. Wilson's Seedling is very prolific ; 260 berries, many 

 of them large ones, have been grown on a single plant. 



SEVENTH DAY. FEB. 8, 1860. 



When the good Dr. GRAXT mounted the rostrum yesterday, 

 he was greeted with loud applause; and well he might be, for 

 he has not only the thorough acquaintance with the vine which 

 long years of practice impart, but he bears upon his benevolent 

 face that stamp of integrity which begets confidence and re- 



