Straivberries. 65 



West. During the coming season we will add the Triomphe 

 de Gand and Cumberland Triumph to our list. We are 

 pleased with all the above, excepting the Forest Rose and 

 Panic, which I will discard in the future. At the State 

 Horticultural Society fair last June we took three first prem- 

 iums for our strawberries. Some of our Sharpless measured 

 six and a half inches in circumference. 



This last statement we can vouch for, having seen with 

 our own eyes, in common with hundreds of others, this 

 wonderful plate of Sharpless berries exhibited by Mr. Craw- 

 ford, who, with his partner, Mr. Chase, has six acres in 

 fruit. They are probably the largest growers in the State. 



LIST FOR LIGHT SOIL. 



Early Bidwell, Wilson, Crescent Seedling. 



Medium Jucunda, Charles Downing, Miner's Prolific. 



Late Kentucky, Mount Vernon. 



FOR HEAVY SOIL. // ^ OF T/f^^fe\ 



Sharpless, Windsor, Glendale, Duchess. P 7 g j y ^ 



WINTER PROTECTION. 



The following essay on Mulching, by Henry McAlis"te?7 

 Jr., of Colorado Springs, read at one of the meetings of the 

 El Paso County Horticultural Society, so completely covers 

 the ground on this subject that we give it entire : 



" To mulch, in the language of the lexicographer, is to 

 cover with half-rotten straw or other litter. 



" In the cultivation of the strawberry the best results 

 can only be attained by carefully mulching the bed in win- 

 ter. It is quite essential that young plants those a year 

 old or less should be mulched; old and vigorous plants, 

 the foliage of which nearly or quite covers the ground, will 

 do fairly well, during ordinary winters, without mulching, 

 but even they are greatly benefited by it. 



" The chief object of mulching is to prevent the alter- 



