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STRAWBERRY 



use of certain fertilizers, such plant-food may be safely 

 and profitably used for Strawberries. It is better to 

 fertilize heavily the crop that precedes Strawberries 

 than to apply in large quantities to land occupied by 

 this plant. In no case should heavy applications of 

 strongly nitrogenous fertilizers be made just before the 

 blooming period nor during the hot summer months. In 

 the first instance, an over-vigorous vine growth at the 

 expense of fruit will be the result; in the second, the 

 plant is rendered too tender and too sappy to resist tlie 



STRAWBERRY 



nothing is better than cottonseed hulls. It 



fact 



worthy of note that 

 son lengthens. Florid 

 sections near the Gull 

 January or early in I 

 berries for four or i 



jf fi- 



south the picking sea- 

 hern Louisiana and other 

 iiil\ iM^-in shipping late in 

 I Miitinue to market 

 In latitude 32° the 

 -ill- 111 the past tweuty- 

 ni-s iriini about April 1 to 

 'icking season rarely lasts 



ride 



iiade 





of 



grower and consuiiM ' , ■. i 



distributing fruits ,i i _ ii'h ii i 



reaching all classes .il r,:ii-iiiH. r- m il 

 — all these things havi- made southeri 

 ries common in almost every city, to 

 more northern latitudes. 



To the foregoing advice may be 

 some of the rotation practices in Gem 

 of rotation exist : the annual, bienu 

 what ma)' be termed the perennial or | 

 These terms are frequently, though ij 

 confused, and some trn.H.rs while- 



ciiUy, a biennial rotaii .all i. am 



establish a new plat aninialU . aliln'U! 

 plowed under or destr.i\ . ,1. i- uvi. \ r. 



To illustrate: A iiI:h i! :i i. -i in In 



tember makes a, K'""'- 



the isotherm of tin i ,i , n ( , 



summer planting an. n,. ■ i , 



are almost exclushi. i,. ii..,i 



vu and village i: 

 A. B. McKay. 



the 



liter 



2425. Shuster Gem Strawberry 



long and sometimes hot and dry summers The south 

 ern cow pea is possibly the best crop to precede the 

 Strawbeiry This leasts tlu gi nil le m mellow and 

 in the veiy best conditi I I t follows 



The soil IS usually pi | 1 vattd rows 



or beds 3' 2-4 fett bioa 1 1 r and earlj 



fall pHnt n„s -vMth th large yield 



the t II 1 I I I s r 10 inches 



Veiv little wii I 1 I II t 



delaj mulchii gill I tl rt 



has been sufli i it lit li t ii 1 1 wintti 



quarters On cla-* s ils inclined t lieuc during frosty 

 weather a thm cohering ot birin ir 1 litter or of short 

 straw (pine striw is txtellent) plated aiound and be 

 tween rather than over plants is of advantage Foi 

 keeping fruit clean and, at the same time, adding al 

 most, if not quite, its purchase ^ alue m plant food. 



hear a second crop the next s; 

 to reset a succession plat and 

 cess would be a biennial ] 

 be nothing less, nothing 

 would it be to call tin- r>> 



been planted in Nn\ !• i 



September — cultiv at. 

 and carried into tin. i ■ 



2426. Leaf-blieht of Strawberry 



nnder the head of biennial even when the plat is set 

 out as late as February or March, cultivated through 

 the summer following and fruited the next spring. 



The biennial rotation (though often under the errone- 

 ous title of annual) is much the most common, and is 

 almost universally employed, except on the coast, where 

 the light, sandy soil, the humid climate and more 



