Strawberry Culture 4-J 



each one occupying two square feet of surface 21780 to the 

 acre. With the best of care to the end of the season, and a heavy 

 covering of straw put on not later than November 15th, each 

 plant should yield a quart 680 bushels per acre. This is a high 

 object to aim at, but plants have produced over two quarts at 

 less than a year old. 



Growing Exhibition Berries 



The difference between a good, well grown berry and one of 

 the immense specimens that are sometimes grown is so great that 

 it is hardly realized. Small berries, such as are often seen in the 

 market, will run from one hundred and fifty to two hundred to 

 the quart. When one hundred will make a quart they are large, 

 and very large when they run from forty to sixty. When large 

 varieties are well grown, a quart basket contains three layers of 

 nine each, and such are readily sold at a good price compared 

 with the smallest that are rated as large. Forty years ago, Rev. 

 J. Knox, of Pittsburg, sold hundreds of bushels of the Jucunda 

 at sixteen dollars a bushel. They were picked in pint boxes, 

 ten berries in each, and retailed at one dollar a box. Mr. Henry 

 Jeroleman, of New Jersey, marketed a great many berries that 

 ran ten to the quart. Mr. John F. Beaver, of Dayton, O., who is 

 one of the most successful amateur growers of the west, has grown 

 handsome berries nine inches in circumference. Mr. A. T. 

 Goldsborough, of Washington, D. C., has grown four-ounce 

 berries. Mr. Joseph Haywood, of Ambler, Pa., has done the 

 same. Last year his berries were not up to the standard, but 

 he had five that made a quart. Mr. E. C. Davis, of Northamp- 

 ton, Mass., is one of the most successful growers in the country. 



