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EVER-BEARING STRAWBERRIES. 



not the variety, so mucli as tlie cultivation, and soil 

 and climate, wKich gave it its continual bearing pro- 

 perties. Some experiments since made with this va- 

 riety, in soils so reduced as to be little else than coarse 

 sand, favor this idea. Mr. Lawrence wrote me at the 

 first, that he reduced his soil by three-fourths of pure 

 river-sand ; and, although I reduced my garden-soil 

 considerably, yet it remained still very much too rich 

 for the Crescent Seedling to develop its perpetual pro- 

 perties. The various experiments, however, were by 

 no means lost. 



About this time, it was announced by the press that 

 Charles A. Peabody, Esq., the horticultural editor of 

 the Soil of the South^ near Columbus, Georgia, had suc- 

 ceeded, by reducing the soil, and with plenty of water, 

 in making two well-known northern varieties — the 

 Large Early Scarlet, and Hovey's Seedling — develop 

 perpetual bearing qualities under the hot summer's sun 

 in Georgia, furnishing fruit in quantities, from March 

 till January. If this was the case in Georgia and N ew 

 Orleans, could we not hope, by similar means, to 

 extend our strawberry season north, during the months 

 of July, August, into September? In. October last, in 

 an interview with Mr. Peabody, he gave it as his 

 deliberate opinion that, by the process he detailed and 

 pursued, we could easily have an abundance of fruit 

 from our strawberry vines until frost came. We take 



