6 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 
destroys great numbers yearly by breaking 
the roots of the plant and leaving the plants 
and some roots exposed to the sun. Owing 
to the warmth of this location blossoms start 
early and are sometimes killed by late frosts. 
If there remains only a level place for the 
bed, and it is not well drained, this may be 
overcome by installing some proper drainage 
system, such as a stone or tile drain. The 
proper way of putting in a drainage system 
is given in some of the books on soils or 
on the physics of agriculture, and will not 
be discussed here. 
If this level place be situated lower than 
the surrounding land, it is not advisable to 
use it, owing to its being a settling ground 
for heavy cold air, which means greater 
liability to frosts. In fact, low lands are 
the least desirable of all for a strawberry bed. 
As a general rule we find that strawberries, 
as a whole, are cosmopolitan as to the kind 
of soil, whether it be clay, sand, or gravel. 
We can find many varieties, such as Senator 
Dunlap, Sample, and Bubach, that will pro- 
duce good crops of fruit anywhere, and so 
are considered by many as not limited as to 
kind of soil, owing to their great success 
