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gardener is ever looking keenly after fertilizers. 

 The sprawling Black-cap varieties are tied up 

 so that the wood may ripen before winter, and 

 if new plants are wanted, the tips of the vines 

 are slightly covered. 



The strawberry-bed is weedy and matted ; 

 indeed, all run together. Yet it is worth 

 saving. It is but two years old, and another 

 crop may be had from it. So spaces eighteen 

 inches wide are cut through it, and weeds anc 

 plants turned deeply under. By this process, 

 rows a foot in width are left between the spaces, 

 and these must be weeded by hand. Or, if 

 the bed is sufficiently extended, the same pro- 

 cess can be performed by a plough, a space of 

 three feet being turned under, and another of 

 plant? eighteen inches wide left for fruiting. 

 If the bed has become very full of grass or white 

 clover, it will be turned under at once, and a 

 new one set out elsewhere. 



