AN IMPORTANT ADDITION TO 



THE RURAL SCIENCE SERIES 



Edited by L. H. BAILEY 



Strawberry Growing 



BY S. W. FLETCHER 



Professor of Horticulture at the Pennsylvania State College 



24 full-page plates and 22 figures in the text, 



The strawberry occupies a position among North American 

 fruits second only to the apple in commercial importance. Pro- 

 fessor Fletcher here gives a clear outline of present commercial 

 practice, taking up all the important points in considerable detail 

 location of beds, most desirable soils, planting, rotation of 

 crops, treatment with fertilizers, tillage and irrigation, the train- 

 ing of the plant, mulching, pollination, picking, packing, market- 

 ing, varieties of berries, insects, diseases, and statistics on acreage, 

 production, and value. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



CHAPTER 



I. Locations, sites, and soils. 



II. Planting. 



III. Rotations, manuring, and fertilizing. 



IV. Tillage and irrigation. 

 V. Training the plant. 



VI. Mulching. 



VII. Pollination. 



VIII. Packages. 



IX. Picking and packing. 



X. Marketing. 



XI. Cost of production, yields, profits. 



XII. Propagation and renewal. 



XIII. Everbearing varieties, forcing and other special methods of 



culture. 



XIV. Insects, diseases, and frost. 

 XV. Varieties. 



APPENDIX. Statistics on Acreage, Production, and Value. 



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