THE STRAWBERRY. 13 



indoors. No lard, tough beef, or dried apple pies to 

 be manipulated and toasted in mid-summer over red- 

 hot ranges. For the strawberry comes from the garden 

 to the table in the most tempting and presentable 

 shape, none of the newer and sweeter varieties requir- 

 ing sugar or any other condiments, to fit them to grace 

 the table of a king. 



In the list of enthusiastic gentlemen who were 

 asked for pointers in strawberry growing is J. H. Hale, 

 of the State of Connecticut, and the United States of 

 America, for he belongs to the latter ; and here is one 

 of the things he wrote: " No man should fool him- 

 self into telling his wife that he 

 hasn't time to bother with such 

 small trash as berries, but will buy 

 all the family wants ; he may not 

 be much of a liar, but those of us 

 who have so often heard that old 

 chestnut about buying all the 

 berries the family wants, know 

 that man is way off. He never J- H - HALE 



did and never will buy one-tenth part as many berries 

 as the family will consume, if he will give them all 

 they can w r allow in right fresh from the home garden." 



Hale is right ; few in the country will buy berries 

 when berries are ripe, and after they are gone, of 

 course they will not buy. 



The only just and true way for an honorable and 

 manly man is to grow them, and let everybody about 

 the place have all they can eat. 



Down in Massachusetts, in the town of Spring- 

 field, lives a good gentleman by the name of Adams 

 J. W. Adams. Along with Hale and a host of other 



