IG MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mrs. Kennedy: Would it be better to put the fertilizer right 

 in the row? 



Prof. Green: Every third plant right in the row. 



Mr. J. A. Sampson. Do youobiecttofive feet apart regardless 

 of the question of pollenization? 



Prof. Green: I think that is a very good idea. 



Dr. Prisselle: I have experienced the best results in plant- 

 ing one row of pistillates and one row of staminates. 



Pres. Underwood: I think these are very important points 

 to bring out, the best ways of pollenizing. 



Mr. O. F. Brand: Outside rows of strawberries are not like the 

 boys outside rows of corn. The corn was so poor that year, 

 that he said he would have no more outside rows after that. I 

 find that outside plants of strawberries do the best. One of 

 the Wisconsin growers stated last winter that his plan was to 

 plant three feet apart and then let them run. He kept his run- 

 ners cut with a cultivator so as to leave his rows about eigh- 

 teen inches wide, and he thought he got a great deal more 

 fruit on the same ground than by planting his rows further 

 apart. 



Mr. G.W.Fuller: Speaking about Wisconsin growers, a year 

 ago I saw a statement that Mr. had grown not less than sev- 

 enteen hundred bushels on five acres of ground. I wrote him 

 I wanted to come downi to see how he grew them. He set his 

 rows four feet apart; he set six rows of Crescents and two 

 rows of pollenizers; his plants run to make a row from eigh- 

 teen to twenty- four inches wide. He told me it was true he 

 had picked seventeen hundred bushels, and not less than one 

 hundred bushels rotted on the ground. 



Mr. Harris: I think Prof. Hansen might give us some light 

 on pollenizing strawberries. 



Prof. N. E. Hansen: We are not doing much with small fruit 

 at Ames, only in the way of breeding and developing new kinds. 

 Last year we took the Parker Earle and the Bederwood and 

 we tried the pollen of one on the stigma of the other, and we 

 hope to get some good seedlings out of it. It is too early to 

 say yot what will be done. 



Mr. D. V. Plants: Some eight years ago I noticed this in 

 strawberries by fertilizing with different kinds. I first noticed 

 it with the James Vick and Crescent, and in picking the first 

 rows of the Crescent and Vick we could not tell which was 

 whicli. I have noticed that the Bubach fertilized with Captain 

 •lack is a great deal larger and better berry than with any 



