APPENDIX. 



APPENDIX A. 



THE STRAWBERRY AND ITS CULTURE. 



BY CHARLES A. PEABODT, OF COLUMBUS, GEO. 



That eminent horticulturists are liable to be mistaken 

 in their views of culture; as well as of the origin and 

 history of plants, as any other class of men, we have 

 ample proof in the conflicting opinions of the nature 

 and culture of the strawberry. Downing says : " The 

 strawberry is the most delicious and most wholesome 

 of all berries, and the most universally cultivated in 

 all gardens of a northern climate." Again he says : 

 "The strawberry properly belongs to cold climates, 

 and though well known, is of comparatively litle value 

 in the south of Europe." With this high authority, 

 the horticulturists of the South never dreamed of cul- 

 tivating the strawberry to any extent, although the 

 woods and fields were covered with the wild fruit. It 



was a knowledge of the fact that the wild strawberry 



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