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AMERICAN HUME GARDEN. 



must be either cultivated upon the hilling system or limited 

 to its o-\vn space by running the grass-edger, or a substitute for 

 it, along each side of it from time to time, cutting off and re- 

 moving all runners, and maintaining a perfect separation be- 

 tween it and the beds ; or the beds may be made five rows 

 wide, the centre row of each being of a perfect-flowered variety, 

 and kept apart from the others with the grass-edger, as above 

 directed. The blossoms of these will supply the deficiency of 

 fertilizers in your beds, and secure full crops. The following 

 kinds are of reputation in their several classes. 



Either of the varieties comprised in the fu-st of the follow- 

 ing classes may be planted as fertilizers in combination with 

 those of the second, but perhaps No. 1 or No. .3 will prove as 

 desirable and successful as any for the end sought. 



CLASS I. 



Varieties having perfect or bi-sexual flowers, bearing their 

 full natural crop of fruit when planted alone. Sometimes 

 ■\wonglv called staminatcs. 



NO. 1. LAEGE EAKLY SCARLET. 



Fig. 295. 

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Pretty large, round ovate ; tender and rich. Color a fine 

 bright scarlet. A good bearer, and ripens early. 



This is an improved sub-variety of the old or native early 

 scarlet, and very superior to it in all respects. 



