OUR COUNTRY LIFE 



varieties with a very few Chinese for early bloom. 



Different kinds of strawberries take up fully one 

 quarter of this garden, with constant need for new beds. 

 As early as the seventh of June the Marshall and Sen- 

 ator Dunlap are ready to be picked; the Barrymore and 

 President soon follow with the Gandy lasting until the 

 eighteenth of July. I was agreeably surprised to dis- 

 cover only recently that the tiny Alpine strawberry, of 

 which the French are so fond and which in flavor re- 

 sembles our own wild strawberry, can be successfully 

 grown in our own garden. This gives one the feeling 

 of acquiring a new fruit. We have some cuttings of 

 the new continuous-bearing strawberry, which is sup- 

 posed to furnish a supply of fruit until October; and 

 this summer will inform us still more fully as to its 

 merits. 



Gooseberries, the big English purple ones, and cur- 

 rants, black, white, and red, also flourish here; black- 

 berries are comparatively unimportant compared to 

 the golden and red raspberries. These delicious 

 morsels are given a generous allotment of space in 



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