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deserve mucli more extensive cultivation than tliev 

 now receive. AVitli their assistance, we may enjoy 

 strawberries not one month, only "but/owr months. 



APPEXDIX E. 

 LETTER FROM PETER B. MEAD. 



September 1st, 1854. 

 E. Gr. Pardee, Esq. : Dear Sir — Your request, that 



T would give you a few remarks on the culture of the 

 strawberry, I will now comply with, but necessarily Id 

 a brief manner. First let me say, that I am glad to 

 learn that you are about to publish a manual On Straw- 

 beiTy Culture. Your long experience and marked 

 success will enable you to invest the subject with unu- 

 sual interest. 



"We cannot always command just such a soil as we 

 want ; but we generally have the material at hand to 

 modify it so as to answer our purpose very well. For 

 the strawberry I prefer a sandy loam, well drained, 

 and a southern exposure. An eastern aspect is alsc 

 good. Animal manures I do not much use, except on 

 a few of the hermaphrodites, and then very sparingly, 

 and only that which is well decomposed. I much 

 prefer prepared muck, leaf-mould, &c, "When a stimu- 



