SELECTION OF SITE 5 



quite used to the conditions of the Northern 

 climate or other external factors. 



SLOPE OR LEVEL 



If there is a choice between a slight slope 

 and a level piece for the strawberry bed, it 

 is advisable to take the former. This must 

 not, however, be too sharp an incline, but 

 rather gentle or slight. The advantages 

 of such a selection will be better water 

 drainage and lessened frost injury, owing to 

 some air drainage. The disadvantages may 

 be some washing of the land, and therefore 

 loss of humus and soluble plant food. 



The southern slope should always be 

 selected for early fruiting; but for late fruit- 

 ing, where the plants are held back until all 

 danger from frost is past, a northern slope 

 is best. This northern slope should, how- 

 ever, be somewhat protected in our Northern 

 States by either a tree, shrub, or building 

 windbreak; otherwise the plants will suffer 

 greatly from cold high winds. 



One of the principal drawbacks to southern 

 exposures is the frequent freezing and thaw- 

 ing, especially of the honeycombed variety, 

 which causes heaving of the plants and 



