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with the other. Under this treatment enormous crops 

 of fruit are raised. 



Large Early Scarlet. — Fruit large, scarletf juicy, 

 melting and richly perfumed ; prolific. Staminate. 



Boston Pine. — Fruit large, deep red, juicy, and of 

 delicious flavor. Staminate. 



Black Prince. — Fruit large, dark polished red ap- . 

 proaching black, flesh firm and of excellent flavor. — 

 Pistillate. Requires a staminate with it. 



Hoveifs Seedling. — Fruit extremely large, deep scar- 

 let, flesh firm, with a rich delicious flavor. A prodig- 

 ious bearer. Pistillate. The most popular strawber- 

 ry in the U. S. Plant Early Scarlet or Boston Pine 

 with it. 



Burr's New Pine. — Fruit large, crimson, sweet, rich 

 and aromatic. Pistillate. 



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Soil. — The plants cultivated in our gardens were 

 gathered from various countries, and therefore require 

 a diversity of soils. The kind adapted to most of them 

 is a deep friable loam, that pulverizes easily, in which 

 sand exists, but does not predominate. Some require 

 a soil composed almost entirely of savannah; others, 

 one the chief constituent of which is sand. 



Laying out the grounds. — "Having obtained the proper soil, the 

 next step is to lay out the grounds, which must be governed in 

 some degree by their shape and location, but mainly by the taste 

 of the proprietor. Some are pleased with regular beds and bor- 

 ders — others can see no beuaty in straight lines, and form their 

 grounds into ovals, circles, and irregular figures of many forms. 



