40 STRAWBERRIES 
STRAWBERRIES FOR PRESERVING 
Sir Charles Napier. 
Elton Pine. 
Scarlet Queen. 
Grove End Scarlet. 
Stirling Castle. 
Newton’s Seedling. 
Viscomtess Hericart de Thury. 
CULTURE FOR MARKET 
There have been great developments in the culture of 
small fruits during the last twenty years, but in no case 
is such development so well shown as in the culture of 
strawberries for market. Many thousands of acres are 
devoted to this crop, and it has been found that, given 
good soil, suitable varieties, and high culture, straw- 
berries pay well in spite of the high cost of production. 
The methods followed by the market-growers differ 
only in degree from those found successful in private 
gardens. A deep, rather heavy loam is selected, if 
possible, and failing this the nearest approach to the 
ideal is selected, the more moist lands being well drained, 
and the lighter ones heavily manured. New land is 
seldom put under strawberries as a first crop (though 
in the Swanley district some rough woodland was so 
treated with success), but a common method is first to 
secure a good tilth by planting with a strong growing, 
heavy cropping potato, which also serves to clean the 
land of weeds. During autumn or winter the land is 
deeply ploughed (sometimes both ways), from thirty to 
fifty tons of manure per acre being worked in. About 
a fortnight before planting, the surface is fined down 
with heavy and light harrows, worked lengthways and 
