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ef the strawberry, they set every fourth or 

 fifth row with staminate, and the intermediate 

 rows with a pistillate variety, one plant of the 

 former being sufficient to fertilize five or ten 

 pistillate plants. 



The success which has practically attended 

 this mode of culture, justifies us in strongly 

 recommending it to all who raise the straw- 

 berry either upon a small or a large scale. 

 We should prefer this mode to that recom- 

 mended by Downing, which is to select the 

 n&w plants, for forming a bed, from the run- 

 ners of those older plants which have distin- 

 guished themselves by their productiveness. 



Of nearly a hundred varieties described in 

 the catalogues of nurserymen, we shall here 

 recommend only a very few. 



Those who wish to cultivate the strawberry, 

 not for fancy, but for the size, beauty, excel- 

 lence and productiveness of its fruit, cannot 

 do better, in our climate^ than to plant out 

 first a row of the Large Early Scarlet (a 

 staminate * variety,) then four or five rows of 

 the Hovetfs Seedling (a pistillate variety,) 

 in the manner above described under Setting 

 in Roivs, and Character of Strawbei*ry Blos- 

 soms. 



* " Sometimes, perfect" Downing. 



