SELECTION OF SITE 5 
quite used to the conditions of the Northern 
climate or other external factors. 
SLOPE OR LEVEL 
If there is a choice between a slight slope 
and a level piece for the strawberry bed, it 
is advisable to take the former. This must 
not, however, be too sharp an incline, but 
rather gentle or slight. The advantages 
of such a selection will be better water 
drainage and lessened frast injury, owing to 
some air drainage. The disadvantages may 
be some washing of the land, and therefore 
loss of humus and soluble plant food. 
The southern slope should always be 
selected for early fruiting; but for late fruit- 
ing, where the plants are held back until all 
danger from frost is past, a northern slope 
is best. This northern slope should, how- 
ever, be somewhat protected in our Northern 
States by either a tree, shrub, or building 
windbreak; otherwise the plants will suffer 
greatly from cold high winds. 
One of the principal drawbacks to southern 
exposures is the frequent freezing and thaw- 
ing, especially of the honeycombed variety, 
which causes heaving of the plants and 
