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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[ November, 



CINDERELLA STRAWBERRY. 

 The accompanying cut exhibits a iiartial 

 view of tlie fruit of one hill of the Cinderella 

 Straivberry, a.s grown on Mr. Felton's farm, 

 photographed from nature. The Cinderella is 

 about one week earlier than the Continental ; 

 (sec October number of The Farmer,) its 

 fruit large, conical, regularly formed ; color, 

 bright glossy scarlet, rendering it surpassingly 

 beautiful and attractive in appearance ; flesh 

 very firm, with a mild, rich aromatic flavor ; 

 and, indeed, may be said to combine all the 

 essential excellencies of a market and a tab le 

 fruit. This variety ~'~' 



is another of those 

 for which a prize 

 medal and diploma 

 was awarded to Gib- 

 son & Bennett, 

 Florists and Fruit 

 Growers, of Wood- 

 bury, N. J., for their 

 exhibit of tine fruit, 

 &c., at the late Ceu- 

 teuuial Exhibition, 

 at Fairmount Park, 

 Philadelphia. It 

 would be of no ad- 

 vantage to any nur- 

 seryman to palm off 

 on the public worth- 

 ies.'; varieties of the 

 strawberry, that 

 would fail to give 

 satisfaction, there- 

 fore they are not sent 

 out as untried seed- 

 lings, but have stood 

 successfully for eight 

 years the test of 

 fruiting, and may be 

 relied on for profit 

 without fear of dis- 

 appointment. The 

 l)lauts are very simi- 

 lar in their develop- 

 ment and appear- 

 ance to those of the 

 Continental, for a 

 description of which 

 see the Octobernum- 

 ber of Tub Farmei; . 

 Although when 

 viewing the Conti- 

 nental and Cinderella 

 strawberries sepa- 

 rately they may ap- 

 pear nearly the same, 

 yet, on a compari- 

 son, the distinction 

 between them will 

 be found sufficient to 

 constitute a marked 

 difference, even with- 

 out referring to their 

 respective diagnoses. 

 The berries of the 

 latter do not average 

 so large as the form- 

 er, and they are more 

 acutely conical in 

 form, and this char- 

 acteristic is also e.x- 

 hibited in their pit- 

 ting. Plants may be 

 obtained by address- 

 ing GiDsoN & Ben- 

 nett, Nurserymen, 

 Woodbury, N. ,J. 

 $3 per dozen ; $15 

 per 100 ; $100 per 1000, 



to suppose that the application of some good 

 fertilizer has the principal, if not the only 

 condition that was demanded, in order to 

 make the proper provisions for the growth of 

 a crop. But little attention has sometimes 

 been bestowed upon the condition of the 

 ground, or the preparation and condition of 

 the fertilizer, or the season for its application. 

 Each of these conditions must needs be re- 

 garded, and those who have bestowed most 

 care in the fulfillment of these conditions 

 have been well repaid for their painstaking. 

 Whenever the time chosen for the application 



THE APPLICATION OF FERTILIZERS. 



Considerations Which Should Have Their 

 Influence. 



Several conditions, or more than one condi- 

 tion, are demanded, or must needs be taken 

 into the account, in order that the best re- 

 sults in the raising of a crop or the cultivation 

 of a field may be realized. 



Too large a proportion of those persons who 

 Lave the management of farms have seemed 



of a fertilizer has been influenced by the mere 

 convenience of the farmer, or when other 

 labor was not demanding his immediate at- 

 tention, there was much reasonable proba- 

 bility that the results which he expected 

 would not be realized. If his labor was 

 crowned with anything like a full measure of 

 success it was merely on account of the fitct 

 that the chance application was made at the 

 proper season. Such persons are too often 

 led to charge the failure to the accoimt of a 

 defect in the general utility of his plan, or in the 

 value of the fertilizer which he has employed. 



It may properly be said, that the most use- 

 ful of fertilizers, or those which may be made 

 most useful when properly employed, have 

 often fiiiled in producing the results which 

 were looked for, and this on account of the 

 omission of a mere link in the chain of inci- 

 dents which were demanded, in order to fm-- 

 nish a reasonable promise of success. 



There is an appropriate season to be chosen, 

 as well as appropriate methods to be employed 

 in the use of every class or kind of fertilizer. 

 Questions may properly arise with regard to 

 the most appropriate methods for the ' fulfill- 

 ment of the several 

 conditions that are 

 demanded, which re- 

 late to the condition 

 of the soil and the 

 preparation and the 

 application of the 

 fertilizer, as well as 

 the appropriate time 

 for the application. 

 With regard to the 

 various circum- 

 stances which should 

 attend the applica- 

 tion it may be said, 

 that fixed rules can 

 not be laid down 

 which will be found 

 applicable to all of 

 them. 



If the substance 

 be of the nitrogenous 

 class, as ammonia, 

 the discretion of the 

 person must be used 

 in the selection of 

 the most economical 

 method for storing 

 it up and having it 

 ready for use at the 

 time it may be de- 

 manded. For this 

 purpose some kind of 

 soil, or the compost 

 heap, in the largest 

 proportion of cases, 

 will be regarded as 

 the most economical 

 methods for the ac- 

 complishment of this 

 purpose. 



As much advan- 

 tage may be realized 

 from a proper regard 

 to the methods of 

 application of a fer- 

 tilizer, the season 

 when it may be most 

 usefully applied, and 

 its special adaptation 

 as a food for the par- 

 ticular crop which 

 he proposes to raise, 

 as from every other 

 or all other conceiva- 

 b 1 e cii'cumstances 

 which are under his 

 control. 



Without due re- 

 gard to these several 

 considerations, fail- 

 ure, or a large dimi- 

 nution of the crop, 

 will almost surely 

 result. A manure 

 that pos.sessed pecu- 

 liar value when in- 

 telligently employed may be nearly wasted on 

 account of a lack of due regard to these sev- 

 eral considerations. It will, therefore, be 

 seen that the number of incidents which are 

 to be regarded are but few, although the 

 demand for a due regard for each of them is 

 really indispensable. 



Although it is a matter of paramount im- 

 portance that a fertilizer, in that which relates 

 to its chemical constituents, be adapted to the 

 cro]) which it is designed to support, there 

 are still other considerations which must be 

 taken into the account. 



