1 68 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 



"Alpine strawberries ordinarily ought to 

 be sweet enough to eat without sugar. If 

 anything is put on them, it would better be 

 a little claret." 



In selecting berries for seed planting, they 

 should be allowed to get fully ripe before 

 they are gathered. On picking them, they 

 should be crushed, and thoroughly mixed 

 with forty to fifty times their bulk of clean, 

 dry sand. This sand will have a tendency to 

 separate the seeds and also absorb the juice 

 of the fruit. A fiat of moist, sharp sand 

 should be ready and the seeds with the sand 

 should be planted in shallow furrows or 

 sprinkled over the surface and lightly raked 

 in. The flat is then thoroughly watered and 

 placed below the bench in the greenhouse or 

 in the propagating house, hotbed, coldframe 

 or any suitable place of this kind. 



If the planting be made in the middle 

 of July, young plants may be expected to 

 appear during the first week in August, if 

 the sashes have been kept closed and the 

 soil well wetted every day. As soon as the 

 young plants appear in numbers they should 

 be shaded. This is best done by whitening 

 the glass. The frames may then be kept 



