28 E. W. Townsend & Son, Square Deal Nursery 
CULTURAL DIRECTIONS 
(Continued from page 27) : 
bearing strawberries are given the same 
care and cultivation as other standard 
Varieties. : 
CULTIVATING AND HOEING. 
The Cultivators should start soon after 
plants are set and given often and shallow 
cultivation the entire growing season. Al- 
ways remember the shallow cultivation, 
nothing is more injurious to a plant than 
deep cultivation. The light, shallow cul- 
tivation keeps a dust mulch around the 
plants which is so essential in dry weather, 
and the roots should never be disturbed 
by either hoe or cultivator. 
AS TO SPRAYING.—This is left en- 
tirely to our customers. They can get bet- 
ter advice from their State Colleges, than 
we can give; every locality has its own in- 
dividual troubles with insects. (We are 
A NEW PUBLICATION. 
thankful that we have no plant insects on 
the Eastern Shore of Maryland). Neither 
do we have to mulch our plants in winter 
in order to save them from freezing. But 
in the very cold sections of the country 
where Mulch is necessary, we recommend 
straw manure if possible, if not convenient, 
any kind of straw, Marsh grass, shredded 
corn stalks, may be used and removed in 
the early spring before new growth starts. 
This mulch should be raked off and left 
between the rows as a protector to the 
coming fruit crop. As to the length of 
time a strawberry bed should be allowed 
to stand depends on the care given to it. 
We have reports that beds have been kept 
up for six years and given bumper crops, 
sometimes producing more fruit the third 
and fourth year than the first season. Keep- 
ing up old patches requires a great deal of 
work, more so than renewing with a new 
bed at least every two years. Old beds are 
given practically the same care as new beds 
in first year. The ground must be kept 
constantly cultivated and all the weeds 
kept out. 
“Strawberry Items”, published at 
Hammond, La., is the livliest publication out on strawberry growing. 
Will be of much interest and profit: to all ‘strawberry growers. We 
heartily recommend it to our customers. Any one who will send us a 
dollar we will forward their subscription to the publishers for a year. 
If you are not more than pleased we will refund the dollar any time. 



OUR RESPONSIBILITY 
As to our responsibility, we refer you to our kLankers --the 
Salisbury National Bank of our city, all Express Co’s., Postmas- 
ter of Salisbury, Md., Cunn’s or Bradstreet’s Commercial Agen- 
cies. Have your banker Icok us up for you, will only cake a 
minute of his time, and he will be pleased to do this for you. 
If you have never done business with us we will thank you 
to make the ingury. You will then have confidence in us, which 
is the foundation of all business relations. Placing an order for 
plants and seed is like placing your all with a man, so far as crop 
prospects are concerned. It is true that the plants nor seed can 
do it all, no matter how perfect, but good plants are the founda- 
tion for a good crop, and always remember that are none too 
; good. 

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