I2O Success with Small Fruits. 



will greatly hasten their development. Moisture is even more essential 

 to the nurseryman than to the fruit grower, and he needs it especially 

 during the hot months of July, August and September, for it is then 

 that the new crop of plants is growing. Therefore, his need of damp 

 but well-drained ground ; and if the means of irrigation are within his 

 reach, he may accomplish wonders, and can take two or three crops of 

 plants from the same area in one season. 



While the growing of strawberry plants may be very profitable, it 

 must be expensive, since large areas must be laboriously weeded by 

 hand several times in the season. Instead of keeping the spaces between 

 the rows clear, for the use of horse-power, it is our aim to have them 

 covered as soon as possible with runners and young plants. The Golden 

 Defiance, Crescent Seedling and a few others will keep pace with most 

 weeds, and even master them ; but nearly all varieties require much help 

 in the unequal fight, or our beds become melancholy examples of the 

 survival of the unfittest 



