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putrid fever. Hoffman asserts that he has 

 known consumptive people cured by the use 

 of this fruit. 



Eaten plentifully the strawberry averts 

 rheumatic complaints. It also dissolves the 

 tartarous incrustations on the teeth. We are 

 very sorry that we feel obliged, also, to tell our 

 cold-water friends, that an agreeable dessert 

 wine may be made from this exquisite fruit. 



Downing eulogises the strawberry as " the 

 most delicious and wholesome of all berries/' 

 and after quoting from a northern bard, 



" A dish of ripe strawberries, smothered in cream," 



which he calls a perfect pastoral idyl in 

 itself, he boldly doubts the existence of any 

 individual who does not relish the fruit. 



The cultivation of the strawberry for mar- 

 ket is not an unprofitable business. Six thou- 

 sand bushels of the fruit are annually sold in 

 the city of Cincinnati. Some of the West 

 Cambridge gardeners have sold in Boston, 

 during a single season, from $700 to $1000 

 worth of strawberries from less than an acre, of 

 land! 



Size of the Fruit. The Hovey's Seedling 

 attains, on an average, the size of three to 



