196 Strawberry-Growing 



berries come in the first week in April, west Tennessee 

 a few days later. Florida berries disappear from the 

 market about the fifteenth of April. By the last week in 

 April, Arkansas and North Carolina are shipping in re- 

 frigerator cars ; Louisiana berries have begun to get soft 

 and are not quoted. The second week in May usually 

 closes the season for Alabama, central and southern 

 Arkansas, Mississippi and the Carolinas; these districts 

 still have berries to sell, but are forced to relinquish the 

 market to the Ozark region, Kentucky, Tennessee and 

 Virginia. The immense production of the Delaware- 

 Maryland peninsula is on the market from the middle of 

 May until the middle of June. Northern growers have the 

 market until the middle or last of July. Oswego County, 

 New York, and Nova Scotia do not close their season 

 until about the first of August ; while Steamboat Springs, 

 Colorado, ships until September first. Southern California 

 markets strawberries in limited quantity in eastern cities 

 through October and November, and the everbearing 

 varieties provide fruit in home gardens until Thanksgiving, 

 meeting the first arrivals from Florida. Thus, we have, 

 in fact, strawberries the year around. The strawberry 

 rivals the apple, banana and orange, in the period that 

 it can be obtained in the market in fresh condition. 



The demand for the strawberry out of what has been 

 considered its normal season, — that is, at times other 

 than early spring, — seems to be increasing somewhat, 

 but it cannot be expected that there will be a heavy 

 demand in late summer and fall, when so many other 

 fruits are available, or in early winter, when prices are 

 very high. The bulk of the sales will continue to be 

 during the months of March, April, May and June, with 

 small quantities at other seasons. 



