1890 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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greens we come into the half-acre of straw- 

 berries. And liere is a picture of what you 

 see. This picture wns taken from a hill, or 

 gentle elevation, north of the house. Many 

 of the strawberries were in blossom at the 

 time it was taken. If you put on your 

 specs you can gei a glimpse of the blossoms 

 here and there. 



Between the evergreens and strawberries 

 is a roadway. At the left of the roadway, 

 and right back of tlie house, is the new half- 

 acre of strawberries for the next season. 



lings. As the Sterling is imperfect, a row 

 of Downings comes next as a fertilizer. 

 Then we have Cumberland, (randy, Bubach, 

 Ilaverland, Jessie, and perhaps some others. 

 They are alternate, so as to have one row of 

 perfect after every two. or. at the furthest, 

 three, rows of imperfect. The straw mulch- 

 ing is plainly visible in the paths; but the 

 cut straw between the plants can not be 

 seen except by moving the foliage aside ; but 

 in the whole patch there is no ground visi- 

 ble—nothing that can soil the berries. Dur- 



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terry's half-acre of STRAWBERHIES. 



These were planted in rows four feet apart, 

 and plants two feet apart in the row, as 1 

 have explained. On the other side oif the 

 roadway is the wonderful half-acre which 

 I recently visited while it was in full bear- 

 ing. There are fourteen rows of berries, as 

 you will see by the picture. Perhaps an ex- 

 pert could tell the varieties by the foliage. 

 Next to the potato-field, on the left, there 

 are three rows of some variety, the name 

 of which I can not now remember ; then 

 come three rows that I am pretty sure, 

 by their looks in the picture, are Ster- 



itig picking time the straw is tramped down 

 in the paths much flatter than what it ap- 

 pears in the picture; and one of the worst 

 troubles, if it was a trouble, was the long 

 stems of the Ilaverlands thrusting them- 

 selves right square in the paths in order to 

 get sunshine to ripen. 1 believe friend Ter- 

 ry proposes to make the paths, especially 

 through the Ilaverlands. a little more than 

 a foot wide hereafter. Over in the field be- 

 yond the fence we saw the wonderful crops 

 of wheat— 85 or 40 bushels to the acre, right 

 straight through the field. There are no 



