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Show ;8trawberrlea Grown In City. To show that strawberries can be grown in tho heart of tho city, Willis A. Hendricks of EaBt Twenty-first and Albert streoto brought to the office of the Oregonian a number of boxes of Magoon and Oregon Improved borrloa containing an average of twenty berries ber-ries to the box. The berries were grown on an ordinary city lot without irrigation. Mr. Hendricks had 1,000 plants on his lot and at the first picking pick-ing he picked a total of 58 boxes ot tho monster berries. A number of tho berries were over five inches in circumference cir-cumference and one measured 7 Inches in circumference. Portland Oregonian. |