190 On the Construction of Strawberry beds. 



The annexed section and plan of the beds will explain how 

 they were constructed. 



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I was informed some years ago by a gentleman from De- 

 vonshire, that he was in the habit of constructing Strawberry 

 beds (which he called Strawberry walls) against the side 

 of a hill or bank, by building up beds in steps, with rough 

 granite at the front, to keep up the earth, each step being 

 about two feet high and three feet wide. These steps 

 were filled with good loam, and the surface of each was 

 covered with rough pieces of granite bedded into the loam, 

 leaving openings between the stones, just sufficient to put in 



