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have come up, watch their growth from day to day. 

 See that the weeds are kept out and that the plants are 

 cultivated as they need it. Make a success of your small 

 farm by attention to it. It may be that you can sell 

 something from your garden, and thus make some money 

 for yourself. In any event, you will have the pleasure 

 of doing something useful. . 



THE STRAWBERRY (PI. I.). 



The Strawberry is a good fruit for boys and girls to 

 cultivate. The plants are easily taken care of, and may 

 bear a full crop of fruit the next season after planting. 



FIG. 86. Strawberry blossoms. 



The plants multiply during summer from trailing run- 

 ners. One plant set out in spring will often form thirty 

 or forty young plants by autumn. These will nearly all 

 bear fruit the following summer. 



There are many varieties of strawberries, and not all 

 succeed equally well in every garden. Before deciding 

 what variety to plant, inquiry should be made of neigh- 

 bors to find what variety succeeds best in the vicinity. 



Perfect and Imperfect Flowers. There is a lesson to 

 be learned about the flowers of the strawberry. The 



