PREFACE 
Ir ts more than twenty-five years since 
a complete book on this subject has been 
published. 
It would seem that this particular crop 
had been somewhat neglected except for the 
work of the horticultural experimenters at 
the various State and Government Experi- 
ment Stations, and through reports published 
in the farm papers of the work by practical 
growers. All this available material on the 
subject has been taken and “boiled down” 
in the shape of a practical book, in the inter- 
ests of the general farmer and amateur 
gardener, so that they may produce a more 
than liberal quantity of this healthful, 
delicious fruit for their own use, and obtain 
more real pleasure and benefit from a small 
plot of land intensively devoted to this 
crop than from any other crop requiring 
the same amount of care and attention. 
The old cry that “the strawberry industry 
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