EVER-BEARING STRAWBERRIES. 45 



EVKR-BEARINa STRAWBERRIES- 



The Basil Alpines have always borne a succession 

 of crops during the season, when planted in the north- 

 ern shade of a fence, and well taken care of, watered, 

 mulched, &c. 



Some three or four years ago, the New Orleans Pica- 

 yune announced that Mr. Henry Lawrence, a gentle- 

 man of that city, had succeeded in obtaining a seed- 

 ling, called the " Crescent Seedling^'' which bore an 

 abundance of large fruit for a continuous period of six 

 or eight months or more, from March to December. 

 AVe wrote to Mr. Lawrence, and his answer confirmed 

 all the paper had -stated ; and he sent us in succession 

 four or five different importations of plants of the 

 Crescent Seedling, by the steamer and otherwise, until 

 at last we succeetled in causing them to grow, and 

 awaited their bearing season, when, alas! they only 

 bore a moderate crop, and ceased bearing as early as 

 any other variety in our ground; thus proving a 

 failure, as far as perpetual bearing was concerned, 

 under our ordinary mode of cultivation. The plant 

 has extraordinary vigor, a rampant staminate, exceed- 

 ing all varieties we hr^e ever seen in multiplying its 

 runners. The experiment convinced us that it was 



