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skillfully as a mason shoves his trowel. In 

 other words only expert cultivators touch 

 the handles of our harrows or lift a line. 

 My berry pickers were taught how to pick a 

 berry and put it into the box without injur- 

 ing it. 



When you come to recommend varieties 

 of strawberries there are s>o many that will 

 do well in one particular locality and not 

 well in another that it is exceedingly diffi- 

 cult to do. The best you can do is to ex- 

 periment; try Senator Dunlap. I have 

 fruited it every year for five years. Then 

 we have the Clyde, which is very popular on 

 some soils, but fails on others. If you 

 haven't got strong, rich soil, that will 

 enable it to do its heavy work, don't set it. 

 Strange to say, I never had the Dun- 

 lap. I have the Clyde and many others. 

 One of my very choicest is the Brandy wine. 

 It does much better with me than Bubach 

 (No. 5), and a great deal better than the 



Rough Rider, for which such great claims 

 were made a couple of years ago. For 

 canning we like the Brandywine just as well 

 as our old canning favorite, the Wilson. 

 Clyde and Brandywine undoubtedly require 

 strong soil ; but it may be said that the 

 majority of strawberries will do well under 

 high culture — that is, on strong, heavily 

 manured soils. Manure and cultivation are 

 the things that make big strawberries and 

 big crops. For ordinary soils and treat- 

 ment I would recommend Haverland, Wil- 

 son, Warfield, Splendid. Haverland often 

 gives an immense yield of fairly good and 

 fair-sized berries under somewhat indifferent 

 treatment, but as a pistillate or imperfect- 

 flowering variety it must have some other 

 sort, like Splendid, Wilson, etc., planted 

 close by or in mixed rows, in order to insure 

 free fruit-setting. Experiment will show 

 which do best in your locality. 



Fig. 2324. East Central Fruit Station. 



East Central Fruit Station. This testing 

 station is situated near Whitby, and is in 

 charge of Mr. R. L. Huggard. At this place 

 we have planted nearly every variety of pear 

 known in Canada, and in time we hope for 

 most valuable reports of their value. Mr. 

 Huggard sends a view of his place and says: 



The photograph was taken from the west. 



which shows part of the north orchard, with a 

 row of spruce planted 25 years, many of them 

 over 30 feet high. The roof of the house 

 and of the barn is almost hidden. This 

 place was all commons 27 years ago, and 

 now many of our trees are 25 to 30 feet high. 

 We are making syrup from the sap of some 

 of the maples shown in the picture. 



