At our recommendation a gardener at Syracuse, N. Y., tried this plan and met with good success, and has communicated his experience as follows: For several years past, I have adopted the practice of mowing my strawberry beds at the period that the plant ceases to put forth new leaves, and the old ones look dry and rusty. This treatment prevents the production of runners to any great extent, the bed being renewed by offshoots from the crowns of the old roots. Usually by fall the plantation will exhibit one mass of fresh-grown leaves. This treatment fails only when a dry and hot spell succeeds the mowing. I have never suffered but once in this way, when the beds were badly burned and thinned out. I did not lose them, however, as they afterwards revived, and though five or six years old, look, this season, like new beds. I am so well satisfied with this system, that I shall always continue it, taking the risk of having the operation defeated by a drouth, which after all only happens occasionally. With plenty of rain it succeeds perfectly.