20 WOUCESTER COUNTY ITORTICULTURAL SOCIETV. [1881. 



eties, as onr worthy Secretary advised me to years ago, but I 

 have not the courage to do it. It requires a strong, moist and 

 rich soil ; the plants are small and tender while young, but get 

 very strong and robust as they advance in life, and a well-kept 

 bed is a joy to behold after the first two or three months. Blos- 

 soms perfect. 



The Sharpless has seemed inclijied to do the fair thing thus 

 far. It originated with J. K. Sharpless, Oatawissa, Pa.; is a very 

 large and good flavored berry, irregular in form at lirst and de- 

 served the nickname it received last season, " Sliapeless," but like 

 Ti'iomphe de Gand which it resembles in flavor the later berries 

 are well formed, and the}' hold their size much better than the 

 Triomphe, and like it do remarkably' well in the greenhouse. 

 They stood the drouth of the past season well, and withal did 

 better than I expected them to do. Blossoms perfect. 



The Glendale found l>y W. B. Storrs, growing wild in Glen- 

 dale Cemetery, Akron, Ohio, in 1871, is one of the late straw- 

 berries that seems to have the elements of success in its make-up. 

 I have adopted it and the Sharpless, and set them on a scale 

 large enough last season to either condemn or establish them in 

 my estimation as market berries on my grounds. Blossoms per- 

 fect. 



I have a dozen newer strawberries on trial this season that 

 will many, if not all of them, " be allowed leave to withdraw," 

 as thousands of their predecessors have. I consider it the duty 

 of every landholder to introduce new phases into tlie routine of 

 their every-day life, and tliere is nothing that I have ever found, 

 unless it was in watching the slow feathering chicken to see how 

 much of its dress would conform to the fashion of the standard 

 of excellence, that interests every one of my family so much, as 

 watching the growth of some new and untried fruit. 



I set all strawberry plants eighteen inches apart in the rows 

 and the rows four feet apart. Used to set two feet by four, but 

 the white grubs have caused me to make this change. If I want 

 to keep them in hills I allow two strong young plants to grow 

 from each old one, and root them on each side of the old ones, 

 and as near in rows as possible, keeping ofi" all other runners. 

 If I want to raise matted rows I layer all the early young plants 

 lengthwise of the rows so I can cultivate between tlie rows as 

 long as possible, stirring the surface soil only. I cultivate, and 

 hoe, to kill weeds, and not plants and corn. 



The plants will usually take all the land by the middle or last 

 of September. I mean to have my land in good condition to 

 grow corn, and be ready to set my plants just as early in the 

 Spring as the land will do to work and the danger of its freezing 



