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deserve mucli more extensive cultivation than tliey 

 now receive. With their assistance, we may enjoy 

 strawberries not one month only hut four months. 



APPENDIX E. 

 LETTER FROM PETER B. MEAD. 



September 1st, 1854. 



E. G. Pardee, Esq. : Bea?^ Sir — Your request, that 

 I would give you a few remarks on the culture of the 

 strawberry, I will now comply with, but necessarily in 

 a brief manner. First let me say, that I am glad to 

 learn that you are about to publish a manual On Straw- 

 berry Culture. Your long experience and marked 

 success will enable you to invest the subject with unu- 

 sual interest. 



We cannot always command just such a soil as we 

 want ; but we generally have the material at hand to 

 modify it so as to answer our purpose very well. For 

 the strawberry I prefer a sandy loam, well drained, 

 and a southern exposure. An eastern aspect is also 

 good. Animal manures I do not much use, except on 

 a few of the hermaphrodites, and then very sparingly, 

 and only that which is well decomposed. I much 

 prefer prepared muck, leaf-mould, &c. When a stimu- 



