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many city people ever saw. I have told you how ready they 

 are to pay for such, and just how to grow them. 



In one corner of the picture of our new strawberry-bed you 

 can catch a glimpse of our small-fruit garden, containing 100 

 rods of land. I wish you could see how the bushes are loaded. 

 We are hardly through with the strawberries yet, and still there 

 are black raspberries, and red ones, almost as large as strawber- 

 ries, waiting to be picked, bushels and bushels of them ; and 

 such a show of blackberries I never saw. As a visitor to-day 

 remarked : " They fairly touch each other all over, a hedge of 

 berries." (The rows were cut back last spring, much like a 

 hedge.) These bushes, grapevines, etc., have been growing 

 only two seasons, and we had probably ten bushels of berries 

 last year. 



After you have mastered the strawberry business, push 

 ahead until you get all the other choice small fruits. Severa 

 farmers have been here (two to-day) to see about getting plants. 

 Our little success has roused them up, and quite a revival in 

 strawberry-growing will take place around here. Would that 

 the same may be true in every locality that this little book 

 reaches, that the people in the towns may be able to buy choice 

 fresh berries in abundance, and particularly that the farmers 

 may have such, as free as water, for three weeks every season ! 

 I have been around to-day gathering up my strawberry-drawers 

 (this chapter is being written piecemeal, as I can get a few 

 minutes to spare), and I just wish those who talk about there 

 being no market for berries could have been with me. At every 

 place it was, " Mr. Terry, can't you bring me a bushel of nice 

 large black raspberries to can?" or, "Half a bushel of those 

 beautiful Cuthberts (red); " or, "Don't you forget, now, I wan 

 a bushel of those splendid blackberries." Why, friends, it just 

 makes me want to keep out of sight, I so dislike to say to these 

 good people that we can not begin to supply them. 



This afternoon a well-known clergyman from Pittsburg call- 

 ed here. I should say he was 60 years old. He went all 



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