Excerpt from A Manual on the Culture of Small Fruits Having received so many and varied questions concerning the culture of small fruits, especially strawberries, and finding it quite impossible to answer them separately, by letter, I have been led to reply by the following brief manual. At the same time I shall aim to do more. This is a busy age, and neither time nor money is abundant. There are multitudes who would gladly see upon their tables the delicious berries in their season, and if they knew how easily and readily they could be raised, would certainly cultivate them. But having made some crude experiments with but poor, or partial success, they come to think that some mystery is involved and that before they can grow small fruits themselves there must be considerable outlay, reading or practical instruction. But nature is not so chary of her best gifts and like the sunshine, she places strawberries within the reach of all who own or hire a few square feet of land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.