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Dr. Isaac P. Trimble. — At once and every five days. 

 Mr. A. S. Fuller.— There is one rule worth remembering, namely : 

 If you want fruit cut them ; if increase of plants, let runners run. 



The Tribune Strawbekries. 



The same correspondent adds : From one plant sent me in ISTovem- 

 ber, 1863, by Mr. Horace Greeley, I raised, last year, thirty dollars 

 worth of berries, at twenty cents a quart, forty dollars worth of 

 plants, four cents each, and thousands given away. About one berry 

 in five will measure four inches in circumference, and a few berries 

 four and a-half ditto. This I think is well for this cold latitude. It 

 is much larger than the picture of this berry printed by Mr. Greeley, 

 when he distributed them in thousands all over the country. 



Mr. W. B. Ilalsted, East Porter, Niagara Co., N. Y.— Only a 

 few years have passed since it was a habit to take a team in the most 

 hurrying part of the season, and spend a day in going from five to 

 ten miles, to get an inferior quality of strawberries, from which we 

 had to pay from ten to twenty cents per quart. The day is yet 

 within the bounds of memory when our intelligent "farm help" 

 brought from the post-office, and laid upon the fence, in the hot 

 August sun, three strawberry plants. By some accident his mind, 

 several hours afterward, caught up with his morning's work, and 

 the plants were remembered, and were set. The next year we 

 gathered no fruit, but had a large number of plants to set. We set the 

 Ellsworth in a bed containing one rod, and from this bed we gathered, 

 the next June, seventy-two quarts of better berries than we have ever 

 seen offered in market. Thus wer-e we stimulated to raising the best 

 fruit ; the best kind grown in farmers' gardens, and we would now never 

 think of living through the summer without berries. 



Thousands, I presume have come to the same conclusions ere this, 

 who, ten years ago, deemed it impossible to raise their own summer 

 fruits. 



"We owe much to the Tribune. The value arising from the dis- 

 tribution of those 480,000 plants can never be counted in dollars. 

 That distribution gave life and energy to the feeble and partial 

 growth of fruit culture, until it has extended to every hamlet of tlie 

 northern union, and is following the adv^ance of civilization south 

 and westward. 



Millions may bless the proprietors of the Tribune for the benefits, 

 they yearly receive from the fruit tlioy so opportunely disseminated. 



