A B C OF STRAWBERRY CULTURE. 19 



next spring the good wife said : " Now, Joe, I am going to get 

 some plants and set them out in a bed in my flower-garden." 



So she sent to Mr. Crawford for some, and put them in and 

 took good care of them. Joe determined to show her a thing 

 or two ("what does a woman know about plants?" this be- 

 cause she bought them), and went to a neighbor's and got some 

 plants from an old run out bed, and set out a bed in the garden. 

 Now, Joe did do considerable work on -his patch, just to carry 

 his point. However, his wife said that, before fall, it was hard 

 to tell whether he was trying hardest to raise weeds, grass, cr 

 berries. They were set out in such a way that all the work had 

 to be done with a hoe. Well, what was the result ? Why, Joe 

 never got one single berry (when " Mrs. Joe " told me this at 

 their fireside last winter he never contradicted the story in any 

 point for a wonder), while his wife had a fine little bed of 

 berries. Please contrast Joe's location and general plan for 

 taking care of the berries, with the plan given above, of six 

 rows some ten rods long, that can be rapidly cultivated with a 

 horse, and you have one of the morals. In other chapters you 

 may find out why Joe's plants failed to bear. 



CHAPTER IV. 



VARIETIES TO PLANT ; WHERE TO GET THEM, AND HOW GOOD 

 AND BAD PLANTS ILLUSTRATED ; ALSO PERFECT AND IMPER- 

 FECT FLOWERS HEELING IN PLANTS RUST AND FROST. 



Please take notice that I have no plants to sell. This lit- 

 tle book is written to tell you all I can about strawberry- grow- 

 ing, from a farmer's standpoint, not to advertise any thing. 

 Buy your plants of the nearest reliable grower. Tell him just 

 what your soil is, and leave it to him to select for you, if you 



