14 BiGGiyK BERRY BOOK. 



estimable persons, his portrait will be found in this 

 book, and his is such a face as would grace any gallery, 

 however select. And he has joined Hale in a plea for 

 the strawberry in every garden, submitting an argu- 

 ment that is irresistible. He says, " How many berries 

 will the average farmer buy? Will it be one quart a 

 week ? " A housewife was confronted with the promise 

 of her well-to-do husband, that instead of growing them 

 they would purchase of James Harvey all she wanted. 

 At the end of the season she said, "How many berries 

 do you suppose we bought ? Not a single quart." 



This forcible question and answer is altogether too 

 common. Farmers who can grow 

 with very little expense, this most 

 healthful and delicious of all fruits, 

 deny to themselves and their fam- 

 ilies the greatest table luxury which 

 Providence has bestowed upon peo- 

 ple of temperate climates, when a 

 single square rod of ground might 

 j. w. ADAMS yield them more intrinsic value 

 than an acre in many other products. 



Strawberry growing is to many people a great 

 mystery, as the writer has had impressed upon him by 

 numberless inquiries, both verbal and written. There 

 is no fruit crop so immediately productive, none which 

 attaches to itself so much enthusiasm and quick reward 

 for labor expended. They flourish to a degree in all 

 soils and in all temperate climates. The number of 

 varieties is now unlimited, and suited to all tastes. 

 When the Wilson's Albany was the only berry grown, 

 on account of its acidity many people discarded the 

 strawberry from their tables, who, now that sweeter 



