98 SUCCESS WITH SMALL FKUITS. 



should experiment with bone-dust, ashes, etc., until I found 

 just what was lacking. 



No written directions can take the place of common- 

 sense, judgment, and, above all, experience. Soils vary like 

 individual character. I have yet to learn of a system of 

 rules that will teach us how to deal with every man we meet. 

 It is ever wise, however, to deal justly and liberally. He 

 that expects much from his land must give it much. 



I have dwelt at length on the preparation and enrich- 

 ment of the land, since it is the corner-stone of all subse- 

 quent success. Let me close by emphasizing again the 

 principle which was made prominent at first. Though we 

 give our strawberry plants everything else they need, our 

 crop of fruit will yet be good or bad in the proportion that 

 we are able to maintain abundant moisture during the blos- 

 soming and fruiting season. If provision can be made for 

 irrigation, it may increase the yield tenfold. 



