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kinds, as among them you may find something 

 just adapted to your soil and locality. But in 

 setting out largely, obtain some well-known 

 variety, that your neighbors recommend from 

 trial. Prepare and enrich your ground 

 thoroughly, and if pressed for room, the spaces 

 of two feet between the strawberry rows can be 

 occupied by radishes, lettuce, onion sets, or 

 spring-sown spinach. Last spring I had early 

 beets sown between the rows of a strawberry- 

 bed. The beets were marketed in June and July, 

 and by fall the strawberry rows were closely 

 filled with new strong plants, which promise a 

 very large crop this year. Still, where ground 

 is plenty, cultivation is more easy and rapid 

 when everything is grown by itself, with wide 

 spaces between, and only very rich soil, with 

 careful culture, will bear crowding. 



Asparagus and rhubarb roots should also be 

 set out as early as possible in April. As the 



