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berry. Scarcely any other kind is planted around Charles- 

 ton and Savannah. 



These six varieties, or others like them, will supply the 

 first great need of all large markets, — quantity. With the 

 exception of the last, which is not productive in the North, 

 and requires good treatment even in the South, they yield 

 largely under rough field culture. The fmit can be sold 

 very cheaply and yet give a fair profit. Only a limited 

 number of fancy berries can be sold at fancy prices, but 

 thousands of bushels can be disposed of at eight and ten 

 cents per quart. 



Still, I would advise any one who is supplying the m.arkct, 

 thoroughly to prepare and enrich an acre or more of moist 

 but well drained land, and plant some of the large, showy 

 berries, like the Sharpless, Monarch, and Seth Boyden. If 

 he has heavy, rich soil, let him also try the Jucunda, President 

 Lincoln, and, especially, the Triomphe de Gand. These 

 varieties always have a ready sale, even when the market is 

 glutted with common fmit, and they often command very 

 high prices. When the soil suits them, they frequendy 

 yield crops that are not so far below the Wilson in quantity. 

 Fifty bushels of large, handsome berries may bring as much, 

 or more, than one hundred bushels of small fruit, while the 

 labor and expense of shipping and picking are reduced 

 one-half. 



I suppose that Mr. E. W. Durand, of Irvington, N. J., 

 obtains more money from one acre of his highly cultivated 

 strawberries than do many growers from ten acres. Mr. H. 

 Jerolaman, of Hilton, N. J., has given me some accurate 

 statistics that v/cll illustrate my meaning. " My yield," he 

 writes, in 1877, "from one acre, planted chiefly with the 

 Seth Boyden, was 327 bu:,hels 15 j^ quarts, which were sold 

 for $1,386.21. A strict account was kept. Since that time 



