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view of their firmness, size, as well as the other 

 good qualities, the Triomphes perhaps bore 

 away the palm. 



But I can emphatically assure the reader thjit 

 the first crop upon the bed, though made with 

 so much pains and cost, more than paid all ex- 

 penses. At the close of this chapter I will also 

 describe another crop raised upon the same 

 ground at the same time. 



I give the issue of this little experiment in this 

 place in order that it may stand in direct connec- 

 tion with the rather elaborate preparation, and 

 satisfy the reader that unusual outlay will often 

 secure unusual return. But my special reason 

 for so doing is to show that strawberry-beds set 

 out in autumn will give a handsome crop the 

 following season, thus saving a year to the im- 

 patient gardener, and the gain of a year even in 

 the matter of strawberries is no trifling matter 

 in our transient life. I admit that on most soils, 



