374 State Horticultural Society. 



DEY WEATHER BERRIES. 



JSTearlv every variety of strawberry has a natural preference for soil 

 of a certain character. For light, sandy soils, Beder Wood, Biibach, 

 Cumberland, Haverlaud and Michel have done best. Varieties best 

 adated to heavier soils are Brandywine, Clyde, Glen Mary, Leader, 

 Lovett, Marshall, Parker Earle, William Belt. Crescent and Sharpless 

 are without a decided preference for any particular soil. In the fields 

 of many commercial growers, the following varieties have stood up 

 bravely during continued dry weather; Beder Wood, Bubach, Crescent, 

 Gandy, Meek, Marshall, Michel, William Belt. Those which are usually 

 poor dry-weather varities are Brandywine, Clyde, Glen Mary, Greenville, 

 Sharpless. It must not be taken that these varieties will behave thus on 

 your soil and under your culture. This grouping Init indicates, in a gen- 

 eral way, what their rocord has been the country over. 



Of the two varieties, Bubach and Marshall, I should say that for the 

 former, a naturally dry soil, a level gravelly loam would be better. 

 Although Marshall has withstood drouth admirably in some places, 

 notably at the Arkansas Experiment Station, it needs a deep, rich and 

 rather heavy soil to bring out its superb qualities. Bubach has little 

 to recommend it in the way of color and firmness, but excels in product- 

 iveness. Michel and Bubach have been for years the standard combina- 

 tion in Tompkins county, JST. Y., and it has seemed to me that our com- 

 mercial growers might find it profitable to introduce new blood into 

 their strawberry patches. Some of the more progressive are now testing 

 such varieties as Clyde, Glen Mary and William Belt. I would suggest 

 a consideration of these before planting the old reliable somewhat inferior 

 Bubach. — Rural Xew Yorker. 



COST OF GROWIXG STRAWBERRIES. 



Editor "Rural World:" Replying to your request in connection 

 with a statement I made about the prices I had sold strawberries for in 

 the west the past three years, would say that with the information I have 

 from the leading mnrkots of the west, the prices ranged from seventy-five 



