THE STRAWBERRY FEBRUARY 1906 



ducts, or tilings that pleased without be- 

 ing instructive. But 1 see now that I 

 have gone wrong. I am a week study- 

 ing a number of the paper where I used 

 to finish it in an hour. I read it now in 

 installments; some articles two or three 

 times over, and think about what I read, 

 and I am surprised at what I get com- 

 pared with what I did before, and I am 

 already beginning to think that the paper 

 is better worth $10 a year than 50 cents. 

 I have learned how to read this paper, 

 and the paper taught me to do it, and for 

 that one thing it has done a good deal for 

 me. 



Notes on Everbearing Plants 



By Samuel Cooper 



I\V.'\S interested in the report of Mr. 

 Riehl in The Strawberry about the 

 Pan-American strawberry, as it is the 

 first I ever succeeded in developing the 

 fall-bearing habit in. I do not like the 

 term everbearing, as it conveys the idea 

 that they can be fruited all summer suc- 

 cessfully, which is not exactly true. 

 They will, however, bear some the 

 whole season, but the berries will be 

 small after the spring crop is taken off, as 

 you know the roots become woody and 

 die. It is too much of a strain on the 

 plants in their weakened condition. 



The best way is to set as early as pos- 

 sible in the spring, dividing the old plants 

 so as to have some roots on each plant, 

 setting them about one foot apart in the 

 row, rows thirty inches apart. Most of 

 these old plants will send out new roots 

 from the crown above the old roots which 

 will not die in August (that is the new 

 roots) as is the case with strawberries 

 raised in the usual way. Keep all fruit 

 stems picked off up to July 15 to 20, also 

 all runners if any appear, as no straw- 

 berry plant will do its best producing 

 fruit and runners at the same time. 



What some people consider a defect in 

 the Pan-American in not producing run- 

 ners freely, 1 regard as a great advan- 

 tage, as I want them to throw all their 

 energies to making fruit, and I prefer the 

 old plants divided in the spring to new 

 layer plants on account of the root system 

 mentioned above. Handled this way 

 they will begin to bear about August 15 

 or 20 and will continue to blossom 

 and fruit until frozen hard. I find them 

 more profitable than spring varieties and 

 a great treat at that time of the year. 



Delevan, N. Y. 



Earle. Our correspondent makes men- 

 tion of the new roots forming just above 

 the old ones. This is true of any vari- 

 ety, if the crowns are covered lightly 

 with fine soil. In preparing an old bed 

 for its second crop, always rake over the 

 crown so as to encourage the new root 

 system. 



We agree with our correspondent that 

 the title "double-cropper" is more nearly 

 correct than that of ever-bearing. 



One principal objection to the double- 

 cropper varieties is their tendency to give 

 so large a share of their energies to the 

 production of fruit buds that the foliage 

 and runners generally are weakened. If 

 we can get a variety so full of vitality 

 that it will build up two sets of buds 

 without drawing so heavily upon its vege- 

 tative parts, the double-cropper varieties 



Mr. Cooper's plan of dividing an old 

 plant doubtless is all right in the case of 

 the Pan-American, but would not be a 

 good one to follow with many other vari- 

 eties. The Pan-American makes a large 

 number of crowns, and they are so ar- 

 ranged that it is possible to divide the 

 plants. The same is true of the Parker 



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HERE comes an inquiry from Illi- 

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 respondence School. Mrs. J. W. 

 D., of Sullivan, 111., writes: "Will you 

 please tell me through the February 

 Strawberry what other three plants I 

 should set with the Warfield, Senator 

 Dunlap and Candy for best results.?" 



Answering this inquiry we would say 

 that in setting Warfields one should first 

 set one row of extra-early bisexual, like 

 Climax, August Luther or Excelsior, 

 then three rows of Warfield; these should 

 be followed by some bisexual variety of 

 mid-season, like Senator Dunlap, Splen- 

 did or Parsons' Beauty. The Gandy 

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