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GARDEN AND FARM TOPICS. 



August, we have three months of fall culture, and six or 

 seven months of the next summer's culture, before a crop 

 is produced. Again, if the crop is continued to fruit the 

 second or third year, every one who has had experience 

 with the nature of the plant, knows that the labor of 

 keeping the plants free from weeds is enormous; while 

 by the pot layering method of taking a fresh crop each 

 year, all such labor is dispensed with. 



KINDS OF STRAWBERRIES. 



Although it is difficult to give any list of kinds of 

 Strawberries that will do well under all conditions, yet, 

 taking the suburbs of New York as a standard, (which, 

 with its great variety of soil, is likely to be as good as 

 any other,) I find that the best ten kinds, having the 

 greatest combination of good qualities, that I can select 

 from a collection of fifty leading sorts, are the following, 

 which are named in the order of their excellence : 



JERSEY QUEEN. 

 This variety was sold 

 for the first time in the 

 fall of 1 88 1, and is, in 

 my opinion, unequaled 

 by any variety of Straw- 

 berry thus far intro- 

 duced. The size is 

 immense, often meas- 

 uring six inches ir. 

 circumference. Shape, 



roundish COnical; color, JERSEY QUEEN. 



a beautiful scarlet crimson; perfectly solid, and of excel- 

 lent flavor. It is an immense bearer, many plants aver- 

 aging a quart of first quality fruit. It is one of the latest, 



