True-To-Name Small Fruit Plants 
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The above cut shows the To vnsend way to handle plants when they are received and 
you are not ready to set plants for several days. 
Plants nicely heeled in 
can be kept for weeks. 
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CULTURAL DIRECTIONS 
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MATING VARIETIES. This para- 
graph should be especially noted by all. 
Strawberry plants are divided into two 
sexes, male and female, or perfect and im- 
perfect blossoms as the varieties are listed 
in our books. The perfect flowering sorts 
will produce as well without the imperfect 
flowering sorts, but should you plant all 
imperfect sorts, you would have indeed a 
very poor crop, if any crop at all. Most 
catalogue writers recommend planting per- 
fect varieties of the same season, with the 
imperfect sorts, same rows of each, or two 
rows of perfect flowering to three or four 
muvee and so on across the field or gar- 
en. 
For best results we have found that 
where the most is to be gotten from an im- 
perfect variety, (and indeed they are our 
very best producers when properly mated), 
is to set-an imperfect variety between two 
different perfect varieties, on one side 
should be a perfect variety that opens 
blooms a few days in advance of the im- 
perfect sort, and on the other side a per- 
fect sort that will continue to bloom until 
after the blooming of the imperfect sort. 
When a trio of this sort is set, you are sure 

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of getting fertilization for all blooms of the 
imperfect sorts,-hence the larger crop to be 
expected and more uniform shape berries. 
Let us illustrate. Commence by setting 
two rows of Dr. Burrill, four rows of Kel- 
logg Prize, and two rows of Chesapeake, 
and continue across the patch in this man- 
If other cultural methods are follow- 
ed success is sure with the above varieties. 
We shall at all times be pleased to make the 
selections of the perfect sorts when imper- 
fect varieties are wanted, for main crop. 
REMOVING BLOSSOMS (Very Im- 
portant). 
All strawberry plants whether standards 
or ever bearing begin to blossom very soon 
after being set in the Spring, and these 
blossoms should be removed as soon as 
they are all open by cutting off the fruit 
stems with a sharp knife or shears. Noth- 
ing weakens a plant more than letting the 
fruit ripen on it when it is young. 
It requires but a few hours to remove 
the blossoms from an acre and that will 
mean your success in growing a strong, 
healthy crop of plants that will prove fruit- 
ful the following crop. 
Most of the ever bearing sorts require 
the removing of blossoms about twice dur- 
ing the first season before berries should be 
allowed to ripen. Aside from this fact ever 
