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many spaces throughout the garden that were 

 occupied by early potatoes, peas, etc., which 

 can now be cleared up and set out with straw- 

 berries. Two of my finest beds for '73 were set 

 out last July. Thus, from a small bed of good 

 strong plants, runners can be taken for trans- 

 planting from 4th of July till the middle of Oc- 

 tober, and as fast as crops mature in summer 

 they can be gathered, and the land, if desired, 

 can at once be occupied with this most delicious 

 small fruit. I had in '72 a small bed, fifteen 

 feet by thirty, of a very choice kind, one indeed 

 that promises better than any I ever raised (I 

 have tried at least twenty varieties), and from 

 this limited area I obtained plants enough, with- 

 out special effort, to set out a large portion of my 

 garden before October, besides many which were 

 given away. I made my rows two feet apart, 

 and early plantings were set out two and three 

 feet from each other in the row ; but those vines 



