THE STRAWBERRY. 



This is the most beautiful and delicious of all our 

 early fruits, and so easily cultivated and so uniformly 

 productive, tliat every housekeeper possessing a few 

 rods of ground can have no excuse for not supplying 

 his table with an abundance. 



Mr. A. J. Downing said truly, "Kipe, blushing, 

 strawberries eaten from the plant, or served with sugar 

 and cream, are certainly Arcadian dainties with a true 

 paradisiacal flavor, and, fortunately, they are so easily 

 grown that the poorest owner of a few feet of ground 

 may have them in abundance." 



In the language of Mr. P. Barry — ''To grow large, 

 handsome, fine-flavored fruit in abundance, it is not 

 necessary to employ a chemist to furnish us with a 

 long list of specifics, nor even to employ a gardener 

 by profession who can boast of long years of experi- 

 ence. Any one who can manage a crop of corn or 

 potatoes can, if he will, grow strawberries." 



During many seasons we have had on trial in our 



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