PRACTICAL GARDENING 



It should be remembered that varieties 

 adaptable to one section of the country might 

 be a complete failure in another. Consult the 

 growers in your near vicinity. 



Water is necessary to mature a crop; it is 

 definitely known that it takes six hundred bar- 

 rels per acre to mature a crop after the fruit 

 is set. Seventy-five per cent, of the weight 

 of the green plant is water, therefore never let 

 the strawberry plant suffer from the lack of 

 sufiScient moisture. Evening is the best time 

 to water the plants and get the moisture to 

 the roots. Sprinkling the surface of the soil 



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