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strawberry deterioration ; or, they run out because 

 plant nurserymen cease to sell them, and because 

 improvement is the order of the day, and new and 

 better kinds are discovered or propagated. It is time 

 a variety had run out, though it may not have deterio- 

 rated in the least, when something better has come in. 

 One of the greatest errors made by strawberry growers 

 is the discarding of valuable kinds before they give 

 them a fair trial and learn just what treatment is best 

 for them, to take up with some new and costly variety, 

 which, in due time, will go out in the same manner, 

 perhaps being inferior in every way to the old sorts. 

 In this way many have already discarded that wonder- 

 ful berry, the Gandy, which succeeds admirably where 

 brains are applied to its culture, and the required con- 

 ditions of a crop are complied with. 



BUNCH OF WILLIAM BELTS 



