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SITUATION. 



A warm, exposed, and yet rather moist location is 

 the best for a strawberry plantation. 



K very early fruit be an object, select a side-hill 

 gently sloping towards the south, with a liberal ad- 

 mixture of small stones or coarse gravel in the soil. 

 This should then be protected on the north, west, and 

 east by a high closed board fence, or a live hedge, in 

 order to be very early; we have seen an artificial 

 hedge of withered evergreen boughs that had answered 

 an excellent purpose, and enabled the owner to realize 

 fifty cents per quart for the crop, when otherwise he 

 could not have so much anticipated the usual season, 

 and would have been compelled to take twelve and a 

 half cents for the same fruit. 



If late fruit be desired, then select a piece of land 

 facing the north, and exposed. Low land is usually 

 preferable to high, hilly land for the strawberry, 3^et 

 it can eastly be raised on both ; a little knowledge of 

 its character will enable us to remedy the defects of 

 the high ground. If the situation is near a spring of 

 water, where it can be irrigated, and is also susceptible 

 of drainage, it is very desirable. 



Though they will sometimes succeed when partially 

 shaded with trees or shrubbery, yet they are best 



