50 Success with Small Fruits. 



tudes of places corresponding differences exist. In such instances, 

 conditions suited to every variety can be found, and reading and 

 experience will teach the cultivator to locate his several kinds just 

 where they will give the best results. Moreover, by placing early kinds 

 on warm, sunny slopes, and giving late varieties moist, heavy land and 

 cool, northern exposures, the season of this delicious fruit can be pro- 

 longed greatly. The advantage of a long-continued supply for the 

 family is obvious, but it is often even more important to those whose 

 income is dependent on this industry. It frequently occurs that the 

 market is "glutted" with berries for a brief time in the height of 

 the season. If the crop matures in the main at such a time, the one 

 chance of the year passes, leaving but a small margin of profit ; whereas,, 

 if the grower had prolonged his season, by a careful selection of soils 

 as well as of varieties, he might sell a large portion of his fruit when it 

 was scarce and high. 



Climate also is a very important consideration, and enters largely 

 into the problem of success from Maine to Southern California. Each 

 region has its advantages and disadvantages, and these should be esti- 

 mated before the purchaser takes the final steps which commit him to 

 a locality and methods of culture which may not prove to his taste. 

 In the far North, sheltered situations and light, warm land should be 

 chosen for the main crop ; but in our latitude, and southward, it should 

 always be our aim to avoid that hardness and dryness of soil that cut 

 short the crops and hopes of so many cultivators. 



