Strawberries. 



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STRAWBERRIES. 



Fragaria. 



NO apology is necessary for introducing the consideration 

 of Strawberry culture into a work primarily intended to 

 discuss the profitable production of vegetables. True, the 

 Strawberry is a fruit one of the choicest and most popular 

 we possess but it is also an essential feature in most gardens, 

 and fits in so admirably with the general crop rotation of 

 market garden work, 

 that its omission 

 would be a serious 

 mistake. In its 

 season the Straw- 

 berry is always in 

 good demand, being 

 a general favourite 

 with both rich and 

 poor, and although it 

 is already produced 

 in this country in 

 enormous quantities, 

 that fact need be no 

 deterrent to laying 

 down further plan- 

 tations in suitable 

 localities, providing 

 its culture is entered 

 upon with thorough- 

 ness. At times and 

 for short periods the 

 markets are glutted 

 with the fruit, but it 

 is mostly of second and third rate quality, and even then 

 the growers make its production pay very well, on the whole. 

 There are never too many choice Strawberries offered for sale, 

 the demand for them seeming insatiable. The grower who lays 

 himself out to raise only the best fruit and to offer it for sale 



Copyright, V. A. & Co. 



Royal Sovereign Strawberry. 



