THE STRAWBERRY FEBRUARY 1907 



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Fruit Packages 



THE PACKAGE 



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of each box so that the calyx will be 

 mostly hidden. If you are growing a 

 long-shaped berry it will be necessary to 

 lay them on their sides, which' will show 

 a part of the calyx. Be sure and have 

 just as nice berries on the bottom of 

 boxes as there are on top. A little care in 

 this part of the work pays handsomely. 



S. C, Dennysville, Me. I see you recommend 

 mowing off the plants and burning the bed 

 over. What is the proper time to do this? 



Just as soon as your plants are through 

 fruiting the first crop. 



H. P. G., Clifton Springs, N. Y. What is 

 the matter with the mother plants which I 

 planted in the spring.' When it gets to the 

 last part of July and the first part of August 

 some of them crisp up to nothing and some- 

 times affect the runners, and some of them 

 after awhile will begin to grow again from 

 the heart, but will be weak. 

 2. I want to put out a new bed this spring 

 which was in potatoes last fall. I could not 

 get manure then. Will it be harmful to put 

 it on in the spring — the last of March? 



When plants act as you describe, it is 

 evident that something is working at the 

 roots. When the mother plant makes an 

 effort to start growing again the insect 



has left it and gone to another, but the 

 plant's usefulness has been destroyed. 



2. If you can get fresh manure with- 

 out much coarse material mixed in with 

 it, it will be all right to apply in the spring 

 before breaking up your ground; but if 

 old manure is used there will be danger 

 of carrying into your field the larvae of 

 the white grub. Fresh manure made in 

 winter never is infested with this larvae. 



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E. L. P., Iron Mountain, Mich. Will plants 

 grow up through mulch satisfactorily in spring 

 if same is light and not removed? 



2. Will it do to burn mulching over in 

 spring before growth starts, especially if plants 

 previous season were affected with rust? 



3. Is there any place to which I could send 

 sample of my soil with reference to having it 

 analyzed in order to determine in what ele- 

 ments it is most deficient? 



4. On sloping ground, is it better to have 

 rows run up and down, or nearly horizontal 

 (at right angles with line of greatest slope)? 



5. What hand-transplanter would you rec- 

 ommend? 



6. In this Upper Peninsula, where the sum- 

 mer is short, would you prefer cow-peas or 

 clover for green-manuring? 



7. What is the object of the narrowing down 

 by plowing each side of row after fruiting, 

 where the single-hedge row system is used? 



8. It was about August 10 before plants 

 were through fruiting and ready for plowing, 

 burning, etc., and after that the season is so 

 short that very few runners grew enough to 

 make sets. Under such circumstances, is it 

 not better to allow the mother plants set out 

 the previous season remain rather than to 

 "strike out" these with a hoe, in order that 

 they may be replaced by a small new set? 



9. You state that the roots continue to grow 

 until the ground freezes. In many parts of 

 the Upper Peninsula, owing to early and deep 

 snows, the ground often does not freeze all 

 winter. Do the roots grow all winter under 

 such circumstances, and if so, is it an advan- 

 tage or otherwise? If the roots do not "cal- 

 lous" except by freezing, and the callousing 

 is important to start formation of new root- 

 growth the following spring, would it not be 

 a disadvantage not to have the ground freeze? 



10. You say in The Strawberry, "Do not 

 cultivate in the spring until all danger of frost 

 is past." But all danger of frost is not past 

 until the flowering season is about over. 

 Should plants not be cultivated before this? 



It always is best to open the mulch di- 

 rectly over the row of plants. Even if 

 mulch is applied thinly it interferes with 

 the plant's natural growth. 



2. No; plants should not be burned 

 over in spring before fruiting. One of 

 our neighboring grower's patch accident- 

 ally caught fire early last spring and the 

 mulching was entirely burned off. Al- 

 though a large percentage of his plants 

 were uninjured and produced an enor- 

 mous crop of berries, yet a great many 

 were completely destroyed. We are 



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