CULTURE OF STRAWBERRIES, 2Ct5 



CULTURE OF STRAWBERRIES. 



Mr. DillEj editor of the Farmer's Register at New- 

 ark, Ohio, has kindly published his successful mode of 

 strawberry cuhure. We copy it, trusting that some of 

 our ajood friends may be benefited by his experience. 



Mr. Dille says, — we have been requested by seve- 

 ral of our friends to give our system of raising straw- 

 berries in detail. As we have been very successful in 

 this culture, we at least feel a confidence in our mode 

 of proceeding. 



As a matter of course, the preparation of the soil 

 must precede the planting. It is not the richest, but a 

 proper soil that is required. New land is generally in 

 a right condition. If it be old, to a bed of fifty feet 

 long by twenty in breadth, give about four or five cart- 

 loads of rotten wood or leaves and wood from the 

 woods, six cart-loads of cow-yard or hog-pen manure, 

 well rotted ; put this upon the soil, and spade it in deep, 

 mixing in well from the surface down. In spading, 

 see that the earth is all loose and mellow, so that the 

 roots will have no difficulty in striking wide and deep. 

 Instead of a high bed, which will be dry, make it low 

 enough to receive and retain the rains which may fall, 

 but not so low as to have standing water or pools. A 

 dam is frequently raised around the beds of earth, 

 which is broken down after the fruit begins to form, 

 that the bed may be reasonably dry whilst it is ripen- 

 ing. A dry bed and dry weather give the sweetest 

 and most fragrant fruit. 



Choice of Kinds. We have cultivated the common 

 scarlet, the English scarlet, and the wood or field 

 strawberry. The first bears best with us ; the last 

 bears well, and is the most delicious. 



Time of Planting. March, April, May, August, 

 September, or October. We would advise, in this 

 country, that plantations should be made in April or 

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