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set the plants in the spring of one year, and they rely on a good crop the 

 second year; after which they replant the ground. They are also very 

 scrupulous in their selection of an appropriate fertilizer. 



We have witnessed the utterance of a good deal of nonsense against 

 the culture of pistillate varieties, as the , attendants of hermaphrodites is 

 then necessitated; but as the latter also yield their crops, there ensues no 

 waste of ground. The assemblage of several varieties in adjacent plots 

 or fields is also a positive advantage, as in such case, if one fertilizer is 

 not congenial, and does not blossom at the same period, the pollen is sup- 

 plied by some other that is efficacious. The fallacious idea that great 

 inconveniences must arise from the plants of difierent varieties running 

 together on the borders of the beds has no application to field crops, and is 

 only important to a nursery of plants grown for sale, where the precise 

 accuracy of every plant is indispensably necessary. But no close proximity 

 is required; for if the beds are planted within one or two hundred feet of 

 each other, nature will ever perform her duty, and the fructifying pollen 

 will, without the aid of winds or bees, be wafted to the female blossoms, 

 conveyed thereto by the electrical influence of sexual-magnetic attraction! 



LOCALITIES WHEKE THE STRAWBERRY IS FOUND GROWING IN ITS NATURAL STATE. 



Every State in the American Union 26° to 49°, north latitude. 



Surinam 2° to 6° do 



Mexico 15° to 33° do 



Texas 26° to 30° do 



Missouri 30° to 40° do 



Illinois and Indiana 37° to 42° do 



Iowa 40° to 43i° do 



"Wisconsin 42^° to 47"° do 



Minnesota 43° to 49° do 



California, Oregon, and Washington territory 32° to 49° do 



Vancouver's Island and Puget Sound 50° do 



Canada East and West 42° to 52° do 



Newfoundland 46° to 51° do 



Hudson's Bay 51° to 64° do 



Labrador 54° to 64° do 



Arctic region 64° ^ do 



Lake Athabasca and Russian Possessions 60° do 



Peru 3° to 21°, south latitude. 



Chili 25° to 42° do 



Conception, Chili 30° do 



Buenos Ayres 34° do 



Patagonia, south to Magellan 38° to 52° do 



Europe, Northern, Middle and Alpine regions 45° to 68°, north latitude. 



Lapland 64° to 68° do 



Pyrenees 38° to 43° do 



Alps 44° to 48° do 



Caucassian Mountains 44° to 44^° do 



Himalaya Mountains 28° to 85° do 



STRAWBERRIES FROM SEED. 



Mr. Wm. R. Prince. — If strawberry seed is sown as soon as ripe, you 

 may get new plants in fifteen days. The right depth to cover strawberry 

 or any other seed is its diameter. Seeds for propagation should be selected 

 very carefull}^ from the best sorts. 



Mr. C. Bemon, Belfast, Maine, writes: 



" I am much interested in the discussions of the Club, especially in regard 

 to strawberry cultivation, and have been very much profited by many use- 

 ful hints, gathered from these discussions. We have been quite successful 



