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at Meredith, X.H., in 1863. Since then, at Newbury, Haverhill, 

 Salem, and Beverly, I have grown the Agriculturist, Charles 

 Downing, Bidwell, Atlantic, Mrs. Garfield, Prince of Berries, 

 Daniel Boone, Miner's Prolific, Belmont, May King, Crescent, 

 Jessie, Jewell, and last the Beverly. I have grown them in area 

 from a small bed to an acre. For- garden culture I prefer to 

 grow them in hills, with double rows, one foot between the hills 

 each way, two and one-half feet between the rows, and to keep 

 all runners cut off. The garden I entered for a prize is in size 

 about forty by ninety feet ; about two-thirds of it was set out in 

 August, 1888, and the spring of 1889, and the other third in 

 August, 1889, after harvesting corn and beans. The ground had 

 been well fertilized in the spring with stable manure and street 

 scrapings from the streets of Salem. After harvesting the corn 

 and beans, I spaded in ground bone and unleached ashes, — about 

 one-third bone to two-thirds ashes, — and used on the whole gar- 

 den, I should think, fift}' pounds of bone and four bushels of 

 ashes. I set out runner plants with what earth could be taken up 

 I'eadily with the trowel, and kept them watered until new roots 

 started. They were hoed as often as once in two weeks ; once a 

 week would be better. All the ruuners were cut off. About 

 December 1, I covered them with leaves and threw on a little 

 stable manure to keep the leaves in place. I got the best results 

 from plants set in August, as above, — as good as from plants set 

 in the spring. If one has plenty of land he should not grow 

 strawberries more than two years on the same piece of ground. 



The history of the new seedling, Beverly, is as follows : In July, 

 1887, I sowed seeds from the Miner's Prolific. In June, 1888, I 

 got good specimens from them. Among those that bore fruit one 

 seemed very promising. In the summer of 1888 I set out what 

 plants it made, which formed a row about twenty-two feet long. 

 I cut oflJ" no runners, as I wished for plants as well as fruit. On 

 one side of this row, twenty-two feet long, I set a row of Belmonts, 

 and on the other side a row of Jewells, each fifty feet long. 

 Treated as well as the seedling, I should say that both rows did 

 not yield any more fruit than the space of twenty-two feet, where 

 I put out the new seedling, though I do not say it would ever do 

 that again. From that twenty-two feet row I got runners enough 

 to set out one-tliird of my garden, in August, 1889, as stated. 

 Last June vou and your Committee saw how they were bearing. 



