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opposite Detroit in Michigan, we would never "be without 

 it. It is the berry of all when well grown. Now don't 

 let any obtain it, unless they intend to grow it carefully, 

 cultivated in rich deep soil, annually surface supplied with 

 food. We do wish it was more grown, but there is no 

 profit in it, except to minister to the palate and pleasure 

 of our friends. 



We will now quote touching Strawberries, a few items 

 from a writer who is posted. He says, speaking first of 

 the Alpine or Hautbois class, as follows: 



" I have been looking over some of my old notes and 

 comments made, and I find that they record every time 

 the speech of men and women in favor of the delicacy 

 and peculiar flavor that belongs to this class of strawber- 

 ries a class which is acknowledged unprofitable .or the 

 commercial grower, but for those who grow only lor their 

 own table of unrivaled flavor and excellence. 



In my own garden I have grown the Red Alpine and 

 Prolific Hautbois more than twenty-five years, and have 

 never had a failure ; and to be left without them now 

 should feel that I was either behind the age or the age 

 was not cognizant of the natures of these varieties for 

 family use. The latter I now believe the true state of the 

 case, but am willing to be corrected if any one conceives 

 it possible. 



I do not believe the amateur grower of strawberries, 

 whether done by himself or professional employed gard- 

 ener, should ever be guided by quantity produced, or 

 even size ; for these two elements almost always militate 

 against the quality. Let them cultivate in the strawberry 



