1736 STRAWBERRY 



mens that they are practically pistillate or sterile. Any 

 variety will fertilize any other variety if it bears suffi- 

 cient pollen and if the two kinds bloom at the sametime. 

 When plantniR pistillate vaiieties every third row 



STRAWBERRY 



New varieties of Strawberries are raised from seed 

 with the greatest ease. The generations of Strawberries 

 are short and new varieties soon find favor. The varie- 

 ties change so frequently in popular estimation that it is 

 impracticable to recommend a list of them m a work like 



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These are t 



but thev u 

 ture Tli( II I 



promise under culii 

 X ine at the expens 

 Theic are several 

 pests of the Stri^ I 

 for all these is to tii 



2416 Pot grown Strawberry plant 



should be a pollen bearing kind The horticultural 

 bearing of the sexual characters of the Strawberry 

 flower seems to ha\e been first clearh explained m this 

 country by Nicholas In itb t ' iticinnati (see 

 Longworth also his es \ tl it ni his Culti 



vation of the Grape, ]s|i i i» 



berry Report of the Cm i nniI 



Societj 1148) \\h.ii m i . ^> 



"seeds t ih '-n \i I 



fails t.. 1 ^ 1 I 



or imp. It till 111 II I: 



Nubbins are usii ,lh m , t ilmii I iiit I it, in t 



fruiting season when the pollen supplj 



small and ^nhen the plants aie relatneh f 



haustcd 



cleaning up the old plant ition fli i u i 

 fruiting Short quick and 1 i 

 culture do much to keep all 

 the fungous enemies are I i 

 t ase by spraying with Bord i i 



The American book writing t u il 

 K a Pardee \ Complete M luuxl of I 



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\sid fiom the 

 tiexted in variou 

 fruit m general 



books lUioti 



Culture 



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oJ Strawberries - fTht f 11 



3417. Heavy mulchi. 



La 



\ md thrive m all paits of 

 u\ fiuitwiU grow and yet 

 II III \oung readers tfty years 



11, h known except as a wild fiuit The 

 no recollection of ever seeing more than one 

 it Strawberries cultivated before he was 25 

 In boyhood he often accompanied his father 



