PREFACE 



It is more than twenty-five years since 

 a complete book on this subject has been 

 published. 



It would seem that this particular crop 

 had been somewhat neglected except for the 

 work of the horticultural experimenters at 

 the various State and Government Experi- 

 ment Stations, and through reports published 

 in the farm papers of the work by practical 

 growers. All this available material on the 

 subject has been taken and "boiled down" 

 in the shape of a practical book, in the inter- 

 ests of the general farmer and amateur 

 gardener, so that they may produce a more 

 than liberal quantity of this healthful, 

 delicious fruit for their own use, and obtain 

 more real pleasure and benefit from a small 

 plot of land intensively devoted to this 

 crop than from any other crop requiring 

 the same amount of care and attention. 



The old cry that "the strawberry industry 



