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latter I watered the beds two or three times in the dry season. 

 Probably it will not boar so large a crop as Hovey's sometimes 

 does, but it appears to be a more reliable variety. 



MoYAMENSiNG PiNE, (P.) bas been considered a good market 

 variety, but the quality is inferior to many kinds, nor does it 

 bear particularly well. 



Orange Prolific, (P.). A large, late and showy variety, but 

 not rich or sweet. It is very prolific. 



Walker's Seedling, (H.) has not proved very productive with 

 me, nor is the fruit of the first quality. 



LoNGWORTii's Prolific, (H.) I have not fully tested. Most 

 of the plants which I procured for that variety, proved to be 

 pistillate, although I was assured that they were genuine by a 

 leading nursery-man from whom I obtained them. 



Primate. Gives promise of being valuable for market. The 

 fruit is firm, of good size and fine quality. 



Cornucopia, (P.) sets a large quantity of fruit deep in the 

 dirt — ripens some large berries and more small ones. It is not 

 a valuable variety. 



Triumph, (H.). Early, very large, juicy, good flavor, very 

 productive, but is rather soft for market. The plant is deficient 

 in foliage, and the plants sometimes get scalded by the sun. It 

 requires a rich soil and good care. 



There are very many other promising varieties that I have 

 not cultivated, and I can of course give no useful information 

 in regard to them. 



6. Adapt your cultivation to the kind of plants that you select. 

 Early Scarlet, Jenney's Seedling, and some others may be 

 grown most successfully in beds one and a half or two feet 

 wide, with the plants only six or eight inches apart. Not more 

 than two crops should be taken from the same bed, and usually 

 but one. Soon as the crop is gathered, prepare the ground 

 between the beds and let the runners from each side take root 

 there. Early in the autumn dig in the old beds and thin out 

 the new. In this way, with proper care, full crops may be 

 obtained every year. Hovey's Seedling often yields more fruit 

 the second year. It may be grown in beds or hills. Boston 

 Pine, and nearly all large hermaphrodite kinds produce more 

 and better fruit when grown in hills one foot or more apart, 

 and kept free from runners. 

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