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not something else. Even though we do our best, trouble often 

 arises. It is very easy to say that one's plants are pure, but not 

 so easy to be sure of it until after they have fruited. 



Though you buy your stock from the most trustworthy 

 growers, through some mistake, or the carelessness of a workman, 

 another kind is sent and put unsuspectingly among pure plants, 

 or a few plants by some chance are tied up where they do not 

 belong. You think your plants are pure but find as they come 

 into bearing that they are mixed. I have so trained my eye, that I 

 recognize the fruit and foliage of the leading kinds instantly, and 

 if a plant even looks suspicious I now dig it up and throw it away, 

 as I do also plants that produce poor and imperfect berries. I 

 have more and more faith in careful selection, and in propagating 

 from superior stock, and shall take special pains to carry out this 

 princi2:>le on my new place. I wish to be able to say of my stock, 

 I know it is pure. 



Do not be deterred by distance from sending for what you 

 want. Where but a few hundred plants are desired for home use 

 the mail offers great facilities. In 18751 sent more than 32,000 

 strawberry plants through the mails, in addition to those for- 

 warded by express, and there was but little complaint and loss 

 even during hot weather. 



Of course large orders and bulky kinds of plants must go 

 by express or freight. 



Wl\at kit\ds to Plant. 



This is a question upon which few will agree and 1 do not 

 hope for a general endorsement. But I shall give the best light 

 on the subject I can, suggesting that the grower must learn 

 largely by experience what kinds he can raise most profitably 

 upon his soil and in his locality and with reference to his market. 

 For the main crop I would advise that half or two -thirds of one's 

 land be set out with Wilson's Albany seedling. This variety 



