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had been neglected and was full of grass and weeds. At that time we had never 

 used nitrate of soda on strawberries and did not know but that it might injure 

 them. The bed we allude to was so run out and worthless that we did not care 

 whether the nitrate killed the plants or not. We gave the bed two or three 

 heavy dressings, sown broadcast, early in the spring and a few weeks later. 

 Instead of killing the plants, the nitrate made them grow so vigorously that with 

 a little assistance from a sharp hoe and by pulling out the large weeds, the 

 strawberries killed out nearly all the grass, and we had a remarkably fine crop 

 of fruit. Since then we have used nitrate of soda and superphosphate on all our 

 strawberry plantations, and find this dressing far more effective and economi- 

 cal than ordinary manure. 



" Nitrate of soda is, at least, equally as good for raspberries as for strawber- 

 ries. On currants, with clean cultivation, we have for several years raised large 

 crops of fine fruit, with a top dressing of nitrate of soda alone, applied on each 

 side of the rows early in the spring. 



" On poorer land, it would be desirable to apply superphosphate and potash 

 in the autumn, and plough or cultivate them in, and the following spring, and in 

 fact every spring, give a dressing of nitrate of soda." 



THE HAVERLAND, BUBACH AND WARFIELD STRAWBERRIES. 



MONG the new strawberries the Jlaverland seem?, to receive general 

 commendation as a cropper. The engraving is a sketch of it as 

 grown at LaSalle, N. Y., and sketched in a recent issue of Popular 

 Gardening. According to that journal it is a berry of which both 

 originator and introducer may well be proud, for it is " enormous 

 in foilage, enormous in number of runners and enormous in quantity of fruit."' 

 The Horticulturist of the Ohio Experiment Station, also commands the Haver- 

 land very highly. He says : 



This variety is one of the most promising of recent introduction. It has 

 been before the public but three years, yet it has become fairly established and 

 now ranks high among the standard sorts. In its leading characteristics it 

 resembles the Crescent, being vigorous in its growth and very prolific. It is not 

 quite so early in ripening, but the berries are larger and finer in appearance. 

 Scarcely an unfavorable report has been heard of this variety from any section 

 of the country. It may not be equal to some other sorts for distant shipment, 

 but for near market it is unsurpassed. Fruit growers who have not planted the 

 Haverland need have no fear in doing so, as it seldom happens that a variety 

 fails in a particular locality when it succeeds over a wide area. 



The Bicbach has been favorably mentioned several times in this journal on 

 account of its uniformly large size, and its ability to withstand dry seasons. 

 Prof. Green, of the Ohio Experiment Station, speaks of it as follows :— 



