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he sees apples in boxes be dou't want them, but if haudled properly 

 and of first class, he would buy and pay first quality prices. 



So with the strawberry crop ; it has to be handled carefully and 

 at once ; you cannot hold it for higher prices, it must go upon the 

 market, and if you have a large crop of berries you want to know 

 where they are going before they come off. They need to be picked 

 carefully, the baskets neat and attractive. 



I have seen them put into baskets and crates not fit for swill. If 

 you should put other products in the same baskets, people would 

 not buy them, but they will have strawberries. If you desire a 

 good class of customers, you must put your fruit in clean, attractive 

 cases. 



With this prospect before us, let us take courage. I grow straw- 

 berries because I love the work. There is a height and depth that 

 we may never reach or understand ; and even this thought lends a 

 fascination. Often as I go out strolling among the flowers, my 

 mind turns to Tennyson's "Song of the Flowers :" 



••Flower in the crannied wall 



I phick you out of the crannies, 



Hold you here, root and all in my hand. 



Little flower; but if I could understand 



What you are, root and all, and all in all, 



I should know what God and man is." 



THE CARE AND EMBELLISHMENT OF CEMETERIES. 



By John G. Barker, Superintendent of Forest Hill Cemetery, Boston. 



But I am to speak to you more particularly on the Care and 

 Embellishment of Cemeteries. Did time permit, I should attempt 

 to give some thoughts relating to the laying out of cemeteries more 

 particularly than is possible in this paper ; for, in the care of any 

 place, much depends on whether or not it is judiciously laid out in 

 the beginning. A proper understanding of this dependence, or in 

 other words a proper regard for the future, is a point every intelli- 

 gent landscape gardener should study. Only a few miles from 

 here, in a town where, around the houses of many of the residents, 

 good taste prevails to an unusual degree, I could take you to a small 

 cemetery so injudiciously laid out, with so many needless avenues 

 and paths, that in keeping it merely tidy more than double the 



