2 Strawberry-Growing 



Strawberry districts. 



So far as natural advantages are concerned, no section 

 has a monopoly of the oft-repeated claun of bemg "The 

 home of the strawberry." Except in the arid sections 

 where water for irrigation is not available, and in parts 

 of the North Central states and adjacent provinces, 





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Fig. 1. — Location of the most important strawberry producing 

 districts, as reported by the Census of 1910. Each dot represents 100 

 acres. A few small shipping districts in Nova Scotia and British 

 Columbia are not shown. 



which are extremely cold, the strawberry can be grown 

 successfully nearly everywhere, if the market demand 

 justified it. Commercial strawberry-growing is not re- 

 stricted to sharply defined belts or zones, as is the case 

 with the apple, pear, peach and other fruits. Although 

 the great body of commercial planting is now concen- 

 trated in a comparatively few districts, these are quite 

 impartially distributed among the various states and 



