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The ever-bearing strawberry, which grows well on dry banks, 
was of much interest. Like the tea rose, it flowers and fruits all 
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aspberies fruiting from August to October, which is much later 
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Fleet were his hybrid chestnuts, covering an area of four acres, 
cover crop. y of the trees were only eighteen months old 
and bore some fruit; others were two to three years old wit 
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good only for cooking. The more chinquapin stock, the better 
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were killed by the canker, so that quantities of spores were 
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