22 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1877. 



the culture the better the crop. Let no green thing be seen in your stra'^- 

 berry field, except the plants and fruit, for if weeds abound the greenest 

 thing about the premises will be the management. If one " takes inter- 

 est in the business, hates weeds, is up with the lark and free with elbow 

 grease," he will be surprised at the possible results. 



A Mr. Smith, of Wisconsin, says he grew 411 bushels on an acre. 

 Thomas Meehan, editor of " Gardener's Monthly," says he saw at the 

 grounds of J. B. Whitney, near Detroit, Michigan, a large milk pan filled 

 with fruit by the picker, from a space so far as he could reach out ai'ound 

 him without moving his feet away. 



Year before last at my grounds at Sunnyside, on about three acres of 

 land, I realized a gross income of a little over S2,000; a large proportion 

 of my crop being choice varieties of strawberries. 



In preparing strawberries for the market the same care should be used 

 in making a second quality of all inferior fruit, as we practice in assorting 

 apples or other fruit. 



To those who plant, cultivate and market with intelligence, perse- 

 verance and care, the choicest varieties of strawberries, there will always 

 be found a ready market, at good prices; while for inferior fruit (and in 

 this list I must include the " Wilson,") a glutted market often affords 

 the grower naught but low prices and disappointment. 



If the same force, thought and effort that many of our amateur culti- 

 vators show in the pleasure and profit they obtain from their gardens, can 

 be carried to the cultivation of our larger fields and farms, we shall all 

 soon have a better appreciation of the capabilities of the soil, and more 

 correct ideas of the uses and value of Horticulture. 



To aid and encourage such progress is a worthy and commendable 

 work. 



