THE STRAWBERRY JANUARY 1906 



calling. And there are others who never 

 fall to the Bunker level, yet come far 

 short of their possibilities. 



We have taken up this work to help 

 everybody who grows strawberries reach 

 the higher altitudes of success, to find 

 pleasure and profit in this most engaging 

 horticultural pursuit, in which there are 

 fewer risks and more opportunities for 

 splendid achievement than in any calling, 

 requiring the same amount of capital and 

 experience, with which we are acquainted. 



Can you give us any reason why you 

 should follow the Bunker plan.? Why 

 not join our progressive movement and 

 became a Simpson.? 



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 Good Work for Women 



By Mrs. May Moyer 



OFTEN have I wondered how many 

 women there are who grow straw- 

 berries. I for one enjoy the work 

 very much. It is a little hard sometimes, 

 but it gives one a change from housework, 

 an I think it is healthful to work out of 

 doors; I mean to do a little each day as 

 you can. 



My husband prepares the ground, 

 manuring, plowing, etc., then I set my 

 plants. I get thoroughbred pedigree 

 plants, as I know they are the best for big 

 berries and lots of them. I have the rows 

 three feet apart and set the plants twenty 

 to twenty-four inches in the row, set them 

 deep, keeping roots straight and am sure 

 that the crowns are above the surface 

 when set. Then I have them cultivated 

 the same day to keep the moisture down. 

 They seem to grow better and faster. 



I have them cultivated after each rain 

 when the surface begins to look dry. 

 We keep them growing in this way, cut- 

 ing off all runners as fast as they appear 

 until after the middle of July. 



I grow three varieties — extra early, 

 August Luther, early, Warfield and 

 Bederwood in equal number, setting them 

 in alternate rows. These I grow in 

 double hedge rows by allowing each 

 mother plant to make four runners, lay- 

 ering them in X fashion. The late va- 

 riety I grow in single hedge row; the 

 mother plants sending only two runners, 

 one each way. After I get them layered 

 this way, I keep the new runners cut as 

 fast as they appear. That makes more 

 fruit crowns. The plants are very nice 

 grown in this manner. 



After the ground is frozen I mulch the 

 plants with marsh hay for the winter. 

 In the spring after danger from frost is 

 past I remove the hay from over the tops 

 of the rows just enough to let the plants 

 to light. I keep the hay under the plants, 

 which insures clean berries. 



You will notice there is something new 

 to be done all the time from the setting 

 of the plants through the whole season. 

 That, I think, keeps one interested in the 



work more than if it were not so. I have 

 been growing berries for ten years, but 

 realize there are a great many things for 

 me to learn yet, but if I live and keep my 

 health I intend to make a still greater 

 success of strawberry growing. 



Devil's Lake, Mich. 



Strawberry Culture in Colorado 



By R. C. Aikin 



THE Rocky Mountain region and 

 the Western districts generally 

 known as the arid or semi-arid, 

 are very fertile and productive. The 

 soils, regardless of color and general 

 make-up, are very rich, never having been 

 exhausted by the production of vegeta- 

 tion, nor leached or washed by water for 

 possibly, thousands of years, lying ready 

 to give up their treasure with the applica- 

 tion of tillage and water. On this soil, 

 almost everywhere, the strawberry seems 

 at home and grows finely if supplied with 



sufficient moisture. The bright sunshine 

 supplies the rosy color. 



The newer soils are not affected by 

 grasses and weeds so common in the 

 East, so one element of labor, weeding, 

 largely is eliminated. Cultivation to 

 keep an open soil in such condition as to 

 favor plant growth is what is required. 



In the East — rather the countries de- 

 pendent upon rainfall for moisture sup- 

 ply — it often happens that too much or 

 too little is applied at one time. Here 

 the water can be supplied at the proper 

 time and in proper porportion, together 

 wi^h a soil loaded with the other elements 

 necessary; and what phenomenal results 

 obtain ! 



In the observation and limited exper- 

 ience of the writer there is no question as 

 to soil elements, but the application of 

 moisture does annoy us considerably. 

 We have more or less fall of rain or snow 

 in spring, and also a limited precipitation 

 some seasons in early summer, but upon 

 the whole we must look to irrigation to 

 supply the necessary moisture in case of 



Strawberries 



IF YOU believe the plants you plant cut any figure in the results; 

 if you think think the best h none too good for you, and cheap- 

 est in theend, and if you want to be sure of getting the variety you 

 buy, in a condition to make the most for you, I ask you to investigate 



THE PLANTS I GROW 



I don't claim to sell you plants cheaper than anybody else. I am 

 not competing with the man whose stock has nothing but cheapness 

 to recommend it, and it is not to your interest to buy that kind. My 

 claim is tliat I am producing the best, strongest, most vigorous and 

 most prolific plants that can be grown in a favored strawberry climate 

 and that I am selling them at a reasonable price. 



ONE HUNDRED VARIETIES 



About every kind that has ever proved its right to be grown in any 

 locality. Of course I especially recommend the well known varie- 

 ties that are standard everywhere, amono^ them being Virginia, Chesa- 

 peake, Cardinal. Commonwealth. North Shore. Oaks Early, New York, 

 Glen Mary, Stephen's Champion, etc. But select your own \'arieties 

 and I will send plants to please vou. 



MY 60- PAGE CATALOGUE 



Is free and gives all particulars. Also lists leading varieties in Cab- 

 bage. Cantaloupe, Tomatoes, Field Corn, etc. Tested novelties and 

 Standard (Jarden, Field and Agricultural Implements. Don't fail 

 to write for a copy. 



W. F. ALLEN, "S' SALISBURY, Md. 



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