194 ABC OF STRAWBERRY CULTURE. 



less trouble than to have your rows in certain places so wide 

 that scarcely a path is left. A man who has any taste and skill 

 at all will go into a nice strawberry-patch made as I have di- 

 rected, and run his fine-toothed cultivator clear up to the point 

 where the string was stretched, and will do you a handsome 

 job. If you are selling plants, you get ever so much better 

 roots to have the ground evenly occupied. Now try it, and see 

 if my invention in strawberry-growing is not worth something, 

 even if said invention is not ( when you come right down to it) 

 any thing more than a ball of string that costs only a nickel. 



HIGH PRESSURE STRAWBERRY GROWING AND SUB IRRIGA- 

 TION. 

 From Gleanings in Bee Culture, Sept. /, 1897. 



If you haven't ground enough for a garden, and have only 

 a few rods where you can get sunshine, you can grow wonder- 

 ful strawberries even there ; and if there be such who read 

 Gleanings in Bee Culture* who have not even a few rods, if 

 they have even a tew yards of ground where the sun may shine 

 a part of the day, and where the plants may get the benefit of 

 the summer showers, they may have much enjoyment and much 

 delicious fruit, even with a few yards. Almost the only condi- 

 tion is plenty of daylight. During mid - summer, very fine 

 strawberries may be grown entirely in the shade ; but during 

 the rest of the year it is much better to have the sunlight. 



Few people are aware of what wonderful things can be 

 done with strawberries where they are provided unstintedly 

 with water and plenty of fertility. You need not urge that it 

 will not pay ; for if you get interested in the matter, I think 

 the enjoyment will almost pay you, to say nothing of the lus- 

 cious fruit ; and then the pleasure of being able to astonish 

 your friends by showing them strawberries as large as small- 

 sized hen's-eggs, and almost as perfect in shape, which you 

 may do with some of our finest new varieties ! 



To commence with, we must have sub irrigation ; and when 

 you succeed in managing sub irrigation for strawberry-plants 

 you have the matter fully in hand so you are ready to apply it 

 to almost any other crop. You may commence on a very small 

 scale at first in fact, I rather prefer you should do so. When 



