STRAWBERRY CULTURE. 



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FIG.S2. :t:.7 Rust: 



Diseases. The chief disease attacking the 

 strawberry is the Rust fung-us, Fig. 82. 

 Where foliage is much injured by this dis- 

 ease it naturally affects the production of 

 new plants and the subsequent crop of fruit. 



One spraying of the Bordeaux mixture 

 before fruiting, and two later on, if the patch 

 is kept over, will do much to control the 

 rust. 



Grand Forks, B. C. M. Burrell. 



STRAWBERRY CULTURE. 



FALL PLANTING. 



'HILE nearly all commercial grow- 

 ers plant their strawberries in 

 the spring, a great majority of 

 (T™^!^^ the skillful amateurs prefer to 

 plant in the summer or fall. Peter Henderson 

 said that if he were planting fifty acres he 

 would use potted plants, and set them in the 

 summer or fall. As we can do no more 

 spring planting this year, we will consider 

 the matter of fall planting. First, let us 

 inquire into the habits of the plant. It is 

 entirely different from nearly all other plants 

 with which we have to deal. It is a stemless 

 plant, and yet it produces neither bulbs, 

 corms nor tubers. It consists of a crown 

 from which roots extend into the soil and the 

 leaves into the air. The crown is the im- 



portant part of the plant, and contains within 

 itself at the close of the growing season, 

 much of the material that enters into the 

 crop the following year. All the effort of 

 the grower is directed towards surrounding 

 the plant with the most favorable conditions 

 so that it may build up a strong crown. 



The strawberry plant is a perennial, and, 

 under favorable conditions, will bear year 

 after year, yet it will simplify matters and 

 help us if we consider it a biennial. No part 

 of the plant lives more than two years — not 

 much over one indeed. The roots now being 

 made by the earliest runners will turn back 

 and die next summer, and a new lot will 

 come out above them, and a new crown will 

 be built up on top of the old one. The leaves 



