CHAPTER XIII 



EVERBEARING VARIETIES, FORCING, AND 

 OTHER SPECIAL METHODS OF CULTURE 



Modern North American everbearing varieties are 

 descendants of the Pan-American, which was found in a 

 row of Bismarck by Samuel Cooper of Delevan, New York, 

 in 1898. There has been keen interest in the North in 

 this new race of strawberries, but its economic status 

 is not yet fully determined. All varieties are more or 

 less everbearing in the far South. 



CULTURE OF EVERBEARERS 



The introduction of the everbearers is so recent that 

 comparatively little is known as to the best ways of 

 handling them. It is probable that current methods of 

 culture will be modified considerably when their nature 

 and possibilities are better known. 



Removing the blossoms. 



The main difference between the culture of everbearing 

 varieties and other sorts is in the management of the 

 blossoms. The plants are set in early spring and the 

 blossoms cut off until midsummer — until about the first 

 of July, in the North — then they bear throughout 

 August, September and October. If the blossoms of the 

 single-bearing varieties are removed in the spring, no new 

 ones appear in the North ; everbearing varieties produce 

 blossoms continuously until winter. The first blossoms ap- 



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