THE STRAWBERRY MAY 1906 



grass which glows only a few inches 

 high, which dies down by the first to the 

 middle of May, which keeps our berries 

 from getting sandy or dirty. 



In conclusion, we would advise our 

 Northern friends who must use commer- 

 cial fertilizers to gather their berry crop 

 and then fertilize for the next year. 

 But if they wish to prolong the season of 

 bearing apply in the spring as early as 

 possible one or two hundred pounds of a 

 high-grade acid phosphate and with it 

 such an amount of some potash salt as 

 will give 20 to 30 pounds of potash per 

 acre and then be very careful not to let 

 the berries get too ripe on the vine or 

 they will not stand shipping any distance. 



Meltronville, Miss. 



A Question For Southerners 



ONE of our Mississippi readers 

 would like to have the experience 

 of some of his neighbors with the 

 Senator Dunlap berry, and writes The 

 Strawberry as follows; 



"How does the Senator Dunlap com- 

 pare in earliness with the Lady Thomp- 

 son, the Klondike, the Excelsior, at the 

 South.? 



"Southern growers please answer and 

 give their experience. 



They Work Without Pay 



BOYS and girls who read The Straw- 

 berry and are interested in the 

 tilling of the soil may learn an im- 

 portant lesson from the following little 

 sketch for which we are indebted to Sun- 

 beam: 



"Onions, turnips, beets, tomatoes, peas, 

 celery — my! I guess Ell have as grown- 

 up a garden as grandfather's is!" exclaimed 

 Willie happily, as he named over the dif- 

 ferent seeds he was going to plant; as soon 

 as he got the "corner lot" ready for the 

 beds. 



Suddenly he stopped digging and be- 

 gan striking his hoe vigorously into the 

 soft soil. 



"What's the matter, Willie.'" called 

 grandfather from the onion bed; "what 

 have you found.'" 



"Ohe, two, ten, twenty — why hun- 

 dreds of them, grandfather, and they'll 

 eat every seed I plant!" exclaimed Willie 

 excitedly, as he began to cut the soil with 

 his hoe more vigorously than ever. 



"Hundreds of what.'" and grandfather 

 raised himself slowly from his knees. 



"Worms, grandfather, and I'll not have 

 a single thing come up." 



The little fellow's face looked a very 

 picture of despair, as visions of early vege- 

 tables — a surprise for father — that he had 

 planned to take back to his city home, 

 suddenly disappeared. 



"Why 1 never call them worms." 



"But they are worms — angle-worms, 

 grandfather." 



"Yes, but I never call them so," 

 laughed grandfather at the serious little 

 face. "I call them farmers — my assist- 

 ant farmers — and the more work I have 

 for them, the better I like it." 



"Farmers! Worms, farmers — and 

 work.? Why, grandfather, all they do is 

 squirm and wiggle." 



"Certainly, that's their work. Don't 

 you see they angle their way through the 

 soil, and so make it light and loose. 

 They are regular little plows; fertilizing 

 the soil, too, as they plow, so to speak. 



"But — but, grandfather, don't they eat 

 the seeds while they are resting.'" 



"No, indeed; my little assistants don't 

 destroy; they only aid in my crop-raising. 



"I didn't know I was going to have 

 some hired help this summer, when you 

 gave me my garden" laughed Willie. 



"You're not going to" chuckled grand- 

 father, as he returned to his onion-bed; 

 "they work for nothing!" 



WORD of a new late variety straw- 

 berry comes from Wisconsin, 

 where J. L. Herbst, long secretary of the 

 State Horticultural Society, is said to 

 have developed a Bubach-Gandy cross 

 that is reported to possess the strong 

 points of both of these excellent varieties. 

 He has given it the suggestive name of 

 "Tardy." The new variety is said to be 

 a strong plant maker with heavy foliage 

 that protects the fruit from sun and rain. 

 The foliage resembles Gandj-, growing 

 up well from the ground with strong 

 stems and larger leaves, somewhat darker 

 in color. The fruit has taken traits from 

 both parents. It is large and conical in 

 shape, being a little more pointed than 

 Candy with a large green calyx similar to 

 Candy. In color and flavor it is very 

 nearly like Bubach. It holds up well 

 after being picked and makes a good 

 shipper. The fruit is borne on strong, 

 stocky fruit stems that do not extend 

 above the foliage, and it is claimed to be 

 far ahead of either Candy or Bubach in 

 yield. 



TH.'\T old joke about crossing the 

 milkweed with the strawberry in or- 

 der to develop the combination of straw- 

 berries and cream without going to the 

 trouble of mixing them, evidently was not 

 a joke so far as Alonzo Murphy of Mor- 

 ristown, N. J., is concerned. The news- 

 papers tell us that Jack Frost nipped his 

 hopes in the bud by destroying his com- 

 bination plants, and one of the local pa- 

 pers says of the attempt to grow straw- 

 berries already creamed and the cause of 

 the failure; "Mr. Murphy, being an 

 imaginative farmer, dreamed that he could 

 accomplish this by a judicious crossing of 

 the milkweed and the strawberry. Last 

 fall he grafted several strawberry plants 



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