Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1829-08-27

in beds, three feet apart, with three rows in
each, two feet apart, and the plants eigh-
teen inches asunder and if the mode
have practised should be adopted, I recon-
mond that the rows be three feet apart
for if the ground is made rich, and we'll
titled, the plants grow so luxuriantly as to
require more room than two feet between
the rows, TO cultivate them properly and
gather the fruit without injury to the vines.
But to cultivate strawberries successfully
irrigation is indispensable. In Great Brit
ain, where this delicious fruit is raised in the
greatest abundance and perfection, the eli
mate is remarkably humid, and drought is
rarely experienced still every precaution
is taken to insure an ample supply Of water
to the plants.
In this country we have almost cloud
less sky, and feryent heat, while showers
are very uncertain, and commonly not suf-
ficiently copious, from the time strawber-
ries commence blossomipg, untilthe period
Of their ripening has passed, and too often
half or two thirds of the crop is lost from
the effects of drought. The plants sud-
denly wither, and the fruit is either not
formed, or prematurely dried up, or shriy-
elled. 800.
If the beds were so situated, that a shall
low trench between the rows, could be filled
J with water every evening. when rain does
not fall in sufficient quantities, the
result would fully reward the care and ex-
ira labor of the cultivator.
ca II hoA csx IF
strawberries which promised great crop,
until the fruit began to ripen, when the
weather becoming hot and dry, there was
great fear Of the consequence. AS they
were At considerable distance from the
pump, all of them could not be convenient
ly watered, but as an experiment, two rows
were beautifully supplied, every evening,
until ail the fruit was gathered, and they
yielded nearly twice as much as the remain
ing four rows.
Nothimg at GH.-To write with grace
and propriety about nothing is not an
easy task; but to try to do so is very
useful exercise for the pen, since writer
who practices successfully this sort Of COM
position, shall hardly fail to write we'll and
easily when he has any substantial matter
to treat of. 1t is in this as in bodily exer-
cises. Tho gymnastic pupil is set upon
difficult movements and arduous exertions,
which give strength and plianey to the
limbs, and enable him TO perform the tru-
~ useful or necessary motions with ease
land gracefalnesss compose this paper
for such an exercise. III
ia q
The ladies greatly excel in this species
of composition-that is to say, writing a.
bout nothing. Witness the elegance of
their epistolary style, as it may be seen in
many publications of ladies' correspon-
dence, both in our own and in other Ian
guages. THERE'S charming flow ofpret-
ty irifing, THAT is, for nothing) in their
letters, which men are seldom able to
produce. As the ladies write about nothing
better than the men, SO do they excel the
men in talking Of nothing. Talking of
nothing is SO different thing from saying
nothing, that those who talk Of nothing
commonly say the most and have fire.
quently heard lady entertain circle a
whole evening in this manner, with great
success-although, after she had ceased,
lii was wholly impossible to say what had
engaged our attention. The men who
profess the art of small-talk, which is the
same as talking about nothing, are COM
monty great favorites of the ladies' and
the reason may be that the ladies have the
double qualification of seeing themselves
inflated, and Of feeling their superiority
in that which is the object of imitation.
1t is not easy to distinguish between
something and nothing; for the skill Of a
good wit will often give to nothing the
quality of something, while dull fellow
will cause something to slip into the OBJ
scurity Of nothing. have heard whim-
steal story, which is very probably as I'M
true as it is unlikely, but which may serve
for an illustration here. A preacher de-
sired much to be allowed to preach before
the king, and at length obtained his suit
on condition his majesty should furnish the
text, which he promised to send him. The
preacher, however, received no commune
cation from the king until he was in the
pulpit. when sealed packet without any
superscription, was put into his hand
which, on opening, he found to contain
nothing. The wit of the preacher, how
ever, stood him instead of text. He
turned the packet first one way, and then
another; there's nothing here, he said,