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no runners, are the prettiest to cultivate in 

 hills or in borders ; and they produce consid- 

 erable fruit, even until the setting-in of the 

 frosts of autumn. 



Some cultivators allow their vines to cover 

 the whole ground ; others quite as successful- 

 ly keep them very neatly in hills. The essen- 

 tial requisites are 



1. Selection of proper varieties; 



2. A deep rich soil ; 



3. Seasonable destruction of weeds; 



4. A renewal of the plants once in three or 

 four years. 



II. CHARACTER OF STRAWBERRY BLOSSOMS. 



There is another very important feature, in 

 the management of the strawberry, which 

 ought not to be passed over. Strawberry 

 plants of different varieties (some think even 

 of the same variety,) -produce three kinds of 

 blossoms, the staminate or male, the pistillate 

 or female, the hermorphradite or perfect 

 blossoms. 



The Cincinnati cultivators have practically 

 proved, that the former two varieties produce 

 their largest crops when growing in proximity 

 to each other. Thus, in making a plantation 



