CHAPTER II. 



THE STRAWBERRY. 



A PI,EA. 



When the culture of strawberries is commenced in a small 

 and extended from year to year, there need be no 

 failures, for no garden or farm crop is more reliable in 

 anmtal returns. TJM. 



BEING the first fruit to ripen the strawberry comes 

 to the table when the appetite is capricious, as 

 a welcome visitor. So beautiful in form, color 

 and fragrance, it is among fruits what the rose is to 

 flowers. In flavor so delicious, in healthfulness so 

 beneficial that invalids gain strength while its season 

 lasts. Strawberries fully ripe and freshly picked from 

 the vines may be eaten at every meal, in saucers 

 heaped high like pyramids, and nourish the most 

 delicate stomachs. 



The charms of the strawberry do not all end in the 

 eating of it. No fruit is so soon produced after being 

 planted. It affords employment pleasant, easy and 

 profitable for poor men with little land ; for old men 

 with little physical strength ; for women, boys and girls 

 who love to till the soil and delve in mother earth. So 

 certain to grow, equally sure to sell at paying prices. 

 It is so suited to all soils, and its culture is so soon and 

 so bountifully rewarded by big berries, that the exercise 

 and joy of success bring with it health and a good 

 conscience. 



Note also the labor which is saved to the family 



