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that the fruit is small, and rather sour. 

 If there is any variety of strawberries that 

 really declines to run, and devotes itself to 

 a private life of fruit-bearing, I should like 

 to get it. I may mention here, since we 

 are on politics, that the Doolittle raspberries 

 had sprawled all over the strawberry-beds : 

 so true is it that politics makes strange bed- 

 fellows. 



But another enemy had come into the 

 strawberries, which, after all that has been 

 said in these papers, I am almost ashamed 

 to mention. But does the preacher in the 

 pulpit, Sunday after Sunday, year after 

 year, shrink from speaking of sin ? I refer, 

 of course, to the greatest enemy of mankind, 

 " p-sl-y." The ground was carpeted with it. 

 I should think that this was the tenth crop of 

 the season ; and it was as good as the first. 

 I see no reason why our northern soil is not 

 as prolific as that of the tropics, and will not 

 produce as many crops in the year. The 

 mistake we make is in trying to force things 

 that are not natural to it. I have no doubt 



