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treatment, but that most kinds can be so trained, tliat, 

 with a soil reduced largely enough with sand, and 

 only vegetable manures applied, and plenty of water, 

 and mulching when needed, they will continue to pro- 

 duce fruit until the approach of frost. The whole 

 tendency of our experiments in strawberries is in this 

 direction. Professor Page has, in Washington City, it 

 is stated, induced the Alice Maude to adopt the ever- 

 bearing habit. E. P. Brooks, Esq., of Elmira, N. Y., 

 had the Hautboys in bearing in the open garden in 

 September and even in December, 1855. 



Amateurs and others will do well to try the experi- 

 ment on a small scale, until they perfectly succeed ; 

 and then the large price of a dollar or more per quart, 

 which the markets of !N'ew York, Boston, and Phila- 

 delphia will pay for such fruits in August, will amply 

 repay for the production on a large scale. Learn well, 

 by observation, all the habits and tendencies of the 

 strawberry in this regard, and we think the thing can 

 be easily accomplished. 



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We now come to the great battle-ground of the 

 giants, but will not enter the lists, if we may be per- 

 mitted to quietly state a few things as our opinion, 

 without intending to reflect upon, or having even re- 



