lacal and Market Strawberries. 



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that nine-tenths of them will be discarded within a brief period. Indeed, 

 I doubt whether the ideal strawberry, that shall concentrate every excel- 

 lence within its one juicy sphere, ever will be discovered or originated. 

 We shall always have to make a choice, as we do in friends, for their 

 several good qualities and their power to please our individual tastes. 



The Strawberry of Memory. 



There is, however, one perfect strawberry in existence, the straw- 

 berry of memory, the little wildlings that we gathered, perhaps, with 

 those over whom the wild strawberry is now growing. We will admit no 

 fault in it, and, although we may no longer seek for this favorite fruit of 

 our childhood, with the finest specimens of the garden before us we sigh 

 for those berries that grew on some far-off hill- side in years still farther 

 away. 



