THE STRAWBERRY JANUARY 1907 



undisturbed. Now take a hoe and cut 

 out all the old mother plants. These 

 easily may be distinguished from the 

 others, as they are larger and because 

 they are directly in the center of the rows. 

 The crowns of young plants that are left 

 should be covered up v\-ith fine soil, and 

 these allowed to make enough plants to 

 take the place of the discarded mother 

 plants. 



2. We recommend using plants from 

 the fruiting bed only when a few are 

 needed for filling in vacancies; never 

 recommend taking from the fruiting bed 

 for general planting. 



F. E., Royalton, Vt. Is it advisable to set a 

 field entirely to bisexual varieties? 

 2. Do you consider the Splendid a good 

 variety with which to mate Sample? 



There is no objection to setting all 

 bisexuals, but we always ad\ise growers 

 to use part bisexuals and part pistiUates. 

 As a rule, pistillate varieties are more 

 productive when properly mated. Pistd- 

 lates th'ow no pollen and therefore are 

 not so easily exhausted as the bisexual. 

 Results of a series of experiments have 

 convinced us that even bisexuals VA'ill 

 yield more berries and of better form 

 when several varieties are set in the same 

 field. 



2. T'he Splendid is too early properly 

 to mate Sample alone, but when used in 

 connection with a later bisexual it is hard 

 to beat for that purpose. For instance, 

 if you wish to make Sample your leader, 

 and desire to use Splendid, follow this 

 course: Set one row of Splendid, then 

 three rows of Sample, and the fifth row 

 may be set to a late bisexual, such as 

 Dornan or Pride of Michigan. In setting 

 them in this order there will be no time 

 during the season when there is not an 

 ample su;iply of pollen in the air to sup- 

 ply the pistillate flowers. 



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S. E. R. , Pentwater, Mich. Please advise me 

 if the potato vines which I shall rake off the 

 ground after digging potatoes will be suitable 

 to cover my strawberry bed for the winter. 

 I thought the tops might be better than 

 straw as not so likely to smother the straw- 

 berries. If so please tell me. 



Potato vines proved to be a very satis- 

 factory mulch in an experiment made on 

 our own beds, but we found they could 

 be improved by piling them three or four 

 feet deep and driving horses over them a 

 few times and trampling them so that 

 they were more pliable and thus laid 

 closer to the plants. However, don't hesi- 

 tate to use straw because it lies too close- 

 ly to the plants, as this is no objection. 

 It would be a good plan to apply the 

 potato vines directly over the rows of 

 plants and then put over them a light 

 covering of straw and also in the space 



between the rows. This would be espec- 

 ially valuable in cases where oat straw is 

 used. It is to be understood that we do 

 not recommend this plan on a large straw- 

 berry field simply because it involves too 

 much labor. 



J. li: H., Clio, Mich. We have been prepar- 

 ing a piece of land to set to strawberries next 

 spring and we are undecided as to the variety. 

 The soil is a rich, black clay loam, made very 

 strong by plowing under a heavy crop of 

 clover last spring, and then covered again this 

 fall with rotted manure and plowed. We are 

 afraid to set varieties that produce much 

 foliage. The local demand here is for War- 

 fields. Do you think they would do well on 

 this soil? Is there any other you would con- 

 sider better? 



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 hedge row it should give you fine results 



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