22° The Strawberry Book. 
in July. The same number of weeds would have ruined 
the bed if it had been kept another year. 
Third. The land that bears strawberries one year be- 
ing planted with some other crop, generally potatoes the 
next, is in most excellent condition for a new plantation 
of strawberries in the third season, it having been found 
much better not to take two crops of strawberries in suc- 
cession from the same field. : 
This is an old English method, but has been revived, 
and carried to the highest perfection, in this country. 
The growers in Belmont, near’ Boston, have employed 
this method, and obtained astonishing results with Hov- 
ey’s Seedling, using Brighton Pine, or sometimes Boston 
Pine, as a fertilizer. From four thousand to five thousand 
quarts per acre is a fair average crop, some exceptional 
instances showing much higher figures. The productive- 
ness of a variety, I may here remark, must never be esti- 
mated on the basis of the yield obtained from a small 
garden bed in exceptionally favored circumstances ; for if 
this method were fair, stories approaching the marvellous 
might be told of some strawberries. If I do not mistake, 
Mr. C. M. Hovey says that a bed of his Seedling, twelve 
feet by two and a half; has borne twelve quarts in one 
season. This would be more than seventeen thousand 
quarts to the acre — a result never yet attained on a large 
scale. 
I have no exact data at command for fixing the average 
yield of English varieties at home, but I find that a prod- 
uct on a small scale, at the rate of thirty-eight hundred 
quarts to the acre, is thought worthy of being chronicled, 
the varieties being the British Queen and Keens’ Seedling. 
Hint Cuitrure. 
As I have remarked, the foreign varieties, such as the 
Jucunda and the Triomphe de Gand, make high, promi- 
nent crowns, and give much better returns when raised in 
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