Allow me to add one to the numerous accounts of large crops of that excellent fruit, the Strawberry.

In the spring 1849,I selected a small patch of ground 8 by 18 feet for a bed. It was nothing better than common garden soil, which in the spring of '48 had been trenched one spit deep, turning under plenty of stable manure. I gave it a top-dressing of well rotted manure, plaster and charcoal dust which had laid in the air and weather two or three years.

I planted my strawberry roots (Black Prince, originally from A. Saul & Co., Newburgh,) in rows eighteen inches apart and two feet in the rows. Every plant lived and grew finely. I allowed all the runners to take root, and the next spring ('50) the bed was a complete mat of vines strong and thrifty.

The first picking was twenty-one quarts; the next was lost by rotting before fairly ripening, owing to the excessively warm rainy weather at that time, probably as many as ten quarts rotted on the ground; however, what we actually picked and measured amounted to thirty seen, beingly uniformly large. Yours respect-fully, Butler Sheldon. Auburn, March, '51.