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The imperfect or pistillate blossoms contain pistils only. It is 

 necessary to know before transplanting what varieties are pistil- 

 late in order to plant perfect flowering sorts near enough to 

 ensure fertilization. One row in every two to four of the pis- 

 tillate sorts is sufficient. The pistillate varieties usually yield 

 more heavily than other varieties when well fertilized. 



SUMMARY. 



1. Southern grown berries do not come into competition 

 with home-grown fruit. 



2. The culture is the same for berries both for home use and 

 the market. 



3. The strawberry does well wherever given good cultiva- 

 tion, proper drainage and plenty of fertilizer in available form. 



4. Well-rotted manure, bone meal, and wood ashes (or soine 

 of the potash salts), are considered the best fertilizers. 



1^. Fall plowing, mulching with manure and thorough pre- 

 paration of soil before setting plants are the first steps in straw- 

 berry growing. 



6. A crop of clover or other green manure known to be free 

 from insects will when plowed under prove of great value to 

 the crop. 



7. Coarse manure may be plowed under with good results, 

 provided it is applied early enough to be well decomposed by 

 planting time. 



8. Spring set plants give the best results ; where fall set they 

 should be grown especially for that purpose, small pots being 

 most commonly used. 



9. Where plants are grown by hill culture they are usually 

 set in rows three or three and one-half feet apart, and one foot 

 apart in the row ; all runners and blossoms being kept oft' the 

 first season. 



10. In matted i-ows, the rows are from three and one-half to 

 four feet apart and plants are set from fifteen to eighteen inches 

 in the row, according to variety and width of row. 



11. Fruiting one season only is usually advocated by best 

 growers. It is less work and more profitable to set a new bed 

 than renovate an old one. 



