of securing health or fertility.

In no other department of horticulture is there more room for common-
sense, accurate knowledge, skill, and good management, than in the use
of all kinds of fertilizers, and, in my judgment, close and continued
observation is worth volumes of theory. The proper enrichment of the
soil is the very cornerstone of success, and more fail at this point
than at any other. While I do not believe that accurate and complete
directions for the treatment of every soil can be written, it is
undoubtedly true that certain correct principles can be laid down, and
information, suggestion, and records of experience given which will be
very useful. With such data to start with, the intelligent cultivator
can work out the problem of success in the peculiar conditions of his
own farm or garden.

It must be true that land designed for strawberries requires those
constituents which are shown to compose the plant and fruit, and that
the presence of each one in the soil should be in proportion to the
demand for it. It is also equally plain that the supply of these
essential elements should be kept up in continued cultivation.
Therefore, the question naturally arises, what are strawberry plants
and fruit made of? Modern wine, we know, can be made without any grape
juice whatever, but as Nature compounds strawberries in the open
sunlight, instead of in back rooms and cellars, she insists on all the
proper ingredients before she will form the required combination.

"The Country Gentleman" gives a very interesting letter from Prof. S.
W. Johnson, of the Connecticut Experiment Station, containing the
following careful analysis made by J. Isidore Pierre, a French writer.
"Pierre," says the professor, "gives a statement of the composition,