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to the acre because late prices will be highest, and this 

 new variety of berry is both hardy and prolific. 



Those who have tested autumn strawberry culture have 

 been able to market the most delicious fruit up to the 

 middle of November in northern regions. These late 

 grown berries are readily taken at 20 to 30 cents a quart, 

 and evidently it will require years to create an oversup- 

 ply. Ordinary frosts have little effect on them. 



All large plant and seed houses are ready to furnish 

 this new strawberry, a fruit which is likely to create 

 something of a furore. 



While the autumn strawberries will blossom and yield 

 fruit from June till November, the best results are gained 

 for the producer by raising common stock for early trade 

 and reserving the new product for fall business. It will 

 be found that the late berries command a price about twice 

 as high as that paid for early ones, as the market becomes 

 glutted in June and July. 



These autumn strawberries are known to the trade as 

 the ever-bearing variety. They yield fruit as early as any 

 other kind, but the point to be kept in mind is that by 

 holding back the berries of the new variety a heavy yield 

 is insured for the latter part of the season when the com- 

 mon kinds do not yield. The method of pinching off 

 blossoms to retard fruit bearing is quite simple. 



Another valuable peculiarity of the new strawberry 

 is that its first fall crop, grown the same season that the 

 plants are set out, will be one of the heaviest it will ever 

 produce. Common strawberries to be a success must be 

 retarded until the second year. The second year's crop of 

 the ever-bearing variety is apt to be as satisfactory as the 

 first, provided cultivation and winter mulching have not 

 been neglected. Each season adds new plants, so that the 

 stock can be kept in a vigorous state. After two or three 

 seasons it may be best to discard old plants. 



In getting ready for the new or the common variety it 



