174 ABC OF STRAWBERRY CULTURE. 



unless the work in question occupies all your thoughts, all jour 

 time, and all your attention. After the above prelude I have 

 something to tell you. 



Last week I had a splendid wheelride right in the month 

 of January (1895). I was attending a farmers' institute at Ada, 

 Hardin Co., Ohio. While there I got acquainted with Henry 

 Young, the originator of the Enhance strawberry. It is now 

 one of the prominent strawberries before the people. It is a 

 perfect berry, very prolific, beautiful in color, a strong grower, 

 free from rust, and, in short, would be a model berry were it 

 not for its awkward shape, and that some object to its tartness. 

 This latter quality, however, makes it especially desirable for 

 canning. The shape, however, has with many rather thrown 

 it into the background, although the berries are about as large 

 as any of the newer sorts. Well, I was greatly pleased to see 

 friend Young's plantation, even in the month of January. This 

 Enhance strawberry is his pet his child. He loves it ; and, as 

 a consequence, it does wonderful things under the training of 

 his loving hands. He too has met the same problem I have 

 figured above, and he has solved it at least, he has invented a 

 way by which even a stupid man, or one with his mind a part 



FIG. 1. MARKING OUT THE GROUND. 



of the time on something else, might set out a bed so as to give 

 a perfect stand. He does it this way : He sets out his plants in 

 double rows, and this is done by setting the plants 18 inches 

 apart each way. Now, this double row is 3 feet from the m xt 

 double row. Fig. 1 will show how he marks out his ground. 



After the ground is marked as above, with any sort of 

 marker, you are ready to put out your plants. The path for 

 picking the berries or for running the cultivator is just a yard 

 wide. The plants, after the plantation is put out, are 18 inctes 

 apart each way. Let me show you some stars standing just as 



