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upon newly cleared sandy land that had a mere skin of vegetable 

 mould, and from a brook near by he kept the plants well watered, 

 generally twice a day, and in the fall covered the ground with 

 leaves and perhaps a sprinkle of woods mould, just enough to 

 paint the sand, and there he actually grows plants that produce, 

 by measure, more fruit than leaves, from March till October. 

 And the same thing can be done here, upon any soil that is poor 

 enough. 



Mr. Pardee — I have no doubt of the truth of Mr. Robinson's 

 statement, because I have seen Mr. Peabody's plants bearing fruit 

 in December. There is one other man who does the same thing, 

 Mr. Henry Lawrence, of New Orleans. He pursues the same 

 course, and gets berries all the long hot summer. The secret of 

 this long continuous production is, keeping them in poor ground. 

 Fertility produces leaves, not fruit, on strawberry vines. Straw- 

 berries out of season would always sell at high prices. I have no 

 doubt they can be cultivated here in the same way. The average 

 crop of strawberries near this city is thirty or forty bushels per 

 acre. A well cultivated crop wull produce from one hundred to 

 two hundred bushels. Look at the profit of such cultivation : 

 The ordinary price will average about eight dollars a bushel ; but 

 such berries as these Boynton seedlings would bring sixteen dol- 

 lars a bushel. It would be easy to get one thousand dollars' 

 worth of strawberries per acre. 



Judge Meigs — When Thomas Bell moved from Westchester 

 county to New Jersey, he found about five acres of strawberries 

 on the farm he bought, and as he had never cultivated such a 

 crop, he did not know the value, and sold the chance to a neigh- 

 bor, who offered seven hundred dollars cash, in advance. After 

 the bargain was closed, Mr. Bell asked him what he expected to 

 get for the crop, and he replied that he should be pretty well 

 satisfied with two thousand dollars. The expense of cultivation 

 is not large; the cost of picking, say five cents a quart. The pre- 

 sent price is about fifty cents, at retail, for the best. 



The same subject ordered to be continued, viz: By Prof. 

 Mapes. " The manipulation of ground for crops;" and " the best 

 succession of crops." 



Adjourned. H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



