Show the culture of strawberries the new york horticultural Society yat at a recent conventional meeting arrived at the i following conclusions in regard to the best method of cultivating strawberries E plough loom and anvil the best soil for the strawberry was wag stated to be a gravelly loam the jand should be well drained and to every acre apply twenty bushels of ash ashes ea ten bushels of lime and two or three pounds of salt the ground should be well broken up animal manures should be eschewed leaf is the best and this his should be carefully spaded in about the first of july is the best time to set out the plants in doing this pains ains should be taken to have them hirm firm firmly FY roote rooted pd the roots should be eighteen inches eti Iti apart part and the plan pian plants ts a foot apart sometimes it will be well to allow greater interval in which case the interstices can be filled up from the growth of the runners after setting out the plants throw on a covering of tanbark an inch or an inch and a half hair in depth then water them plentifully and the moisture avill be retained a time after cold weather comes on cover the strawberry beds and the walks with clean straw throwing over a little brush or something thin to keep the straw in its place in the spring remove the straw and make use of some soine fertilizing a agent ien t to give i th the e p plants lants vi vigor or as sulphate of 0 I 1 soda boda 0 a sit sti sulphate phate of ammonia or nitrate e of potash keep the roots out see that the plants are bountifully watered and let nothing intervene to disturb or retard their growth till you gather the fruit the beds should be made over as often as every three years |