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crop, and also prevents the fruit from lying on 

 the ground, thus becoming covered with earth 

 and grit. The berries have a long neck, making 

 the hulling process easy ; they are firm, solid, 

 with a rich crimson flush throughout. 



As I have said, I was so pleased with this 

 variety, that in the summer and fall of '72 I set 

 out a large portion of my garden with it, and 

 should it turn out as well another season, one 

 need not ask a more profitable business than 

 raising them. Mr. Thomas Skene is trying this 

 variety in the greenhouse this winter, and so 

 by spring we will know its value for forcing. 



As before intimated, another crop equally 

 fragrant, and perhaps taking the world at large 

 almost an equal favorite, was raised at the same 

 time on the strawberry-bed described above. 

 I refer to the aromatic onion. As soon as the 

 rows were filled with plants in '70, the little 



black seed of the large red, and the yellow 

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