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States that for many years I have cultivated the 

 strawberry extensively, and have had from my beds 

 a constant succession of fruit six months in the year, 

 and frequently have it ten. While I am now writing, 

 (December 24), one of my beds, of an acre, is loaded 

 with ripe fruit, specimens of which I have sent to New 

 Orleans, Montgomery, Savannah, Charleston, Mobile, 

 and New York. This bed has scarcely produced a 

 runner the past season. The causes of this will be 

 found in my method of culture. I have said that I 

 prefer a sandy soil and new land. My grounds are on 

 what are called " piney woodlands," hill and valley, 

 with never-failing streams meandering through them. 

 I have taken the grounds bordering on the streams, 

 ploughed them deep, and laid them off in rows, two 

 feet apart, and planted as indicated in the annexed 

 diagram : 



I plant the pistillate for fruit, and the hermaphrodite 

 for impregnators ; and the only two which I have 



