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/TRAWBERRIE/S ARE EA/ILY GROWN _ 
GROW THEM FOR BOTH 
PLEASURE AND 
PROFIT 
Photo of a Well Grown Field of Select Strain Strawberry Plants 
strawberry Culture Directions -- Continued from Page 48 
CULTIVATION. 
Tillage in newly planted strawberry fields or the 
garden should start within ten days after the plants are planted into 
your soil. In commercial plantings, horse drawn cultivators are used, 
also garden tractors and light two row tractor cultivators. In the home 
garden, a small hand cultivator with two handles works very nicely. 
Plants should be hand hoed after the first cultivation, so as to break 
any crust that may form and to preserve moisture. Strawberry plants 
should be either cultivated or hoed every week or ten days. until the 
bed is formed about 30 inches wide, then usually the hoe work drops 
out about mid-July and the cultivator will take care of the cultivation. 
Keep all weeds and grass out of your strawberry patch. 
Keep in mind with using the cultivator to use same shallow, this 
applies to the hoe also. Strawberries like shallow, but frequent 
cultivation. 
REMOVING BLOSSOMS. After your plants become started after 
planting, there will appear on the plant ‘flower stems commonly 
known as blossoms,” keep all blossoms removed from the plant soon 
as they appear. If blossoms are left on the plants. then the plants 
will become stunted. It requires only a littke work and is a important 
factor in growing strawberries. 
EVERBEARING VARi:TIES and BLOSSOMS. KEEP ALL BLOS- 
SOMS REMOVED FROM YOUR NEWLY SET PLANTS UNTIL 
THE LATTER PART OF JUNE. This will let your plants become 
permanently established quickly. After this date let the blossoms re- 
main on the plants and they will form into berries for your late 
Summer and Fall harvest. 
FERTILIZING IN THE FALL Putting an application of 5-83-12 
commercial fertilizer on your strawberry field in the fall will make 
the grower larger profits than spring fertilizer. We have found that 
an application of the above fertilizer at the rate of 800 to 1.000 pounds 
per acre, applied on the beds the latter part of August up until 
September 10th, will make your fruit buds in the strawberry plants 
larger. and at the same time make you more fruit buds, for your 
coming Spring berry crop. 
Apply the fertilizer, on the foliage when the foliage of the plants 
are PERFECTLY DRY, and then use a bush or burlap bag and gently 
brush the fertilizer off the plants’ foliage, so fertilizer will not “burn 
the plants.’ In the Spring apply only 400 pounds of a 6-8-6 analysis 
fertilizer to the acre. when the plants are dormant, usually about 
MARCH Ist, in normal Spring. 
The home gardener can use the same practice as described above 
for field culture using 2!4 pounds fertilizer per 100 square feet of 
space planted to strawberries. In the Spring apply about ONE POUND 
per the 100 square feet. For the home gardener, when there has not 
been any fertilizer applied to the strawberry beds in the FALL, then 
we recommend 3 pounds of 6-8-6 fertilizer applied in the late winter 
or very early Spring, before the buds start growth. When the above 
mixtures are not available in fertilizers, we then recommend that you 
use VIGORO, adding 30 percent more than you do the above mixtures, 
Territorial Adaptability of Townsend's Varieties Strawberries 
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Varieties marked with 
Variety 
* Blakemore 
ASE SOG ooo ace a aoe eae ced All States except extreme South ....... 
Sie is ins wpa sles oe aahate sd All States except extreme South. A favorite for Pa., N. Y., N. Eng. 
coeccseveceees New England, W. Va., Ohio, Hl.. Penna.. N 
“sae Jado Sa All strawberry sections except Fla., Ga., Caro.i>a 
* Catskill 
Chesapeake 
* Dorsett 
Evermore, Everbearing 
* Fairfax 
Fairland 
Fairpeake 
Gandy 
Gem, Everbearing ... 
* Gemzata, Everbearing 
..-Central and Western States 
eee see ..---Middle Atlantic States . 
.-.-.-Planted in all States except far South 
Lupton 
Mastodon, Everbearing ...All States except far South 
Midland 
* Missionary 
Po OMBIES i. iain cob oiele ae ...All sections except extreme South 
* Polar-Queen 
* Robinson 
* Senator Dunlap .... 
Superfection Everbearing ..All States except far South 
* Temple 
Approved For 
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.All States except Florida and Gulf States 
ands CSL a-, Ohio, ba.) 25 NS J. Md25:Va., and N;. Eng. 
---All States east of Miss. River, except Ga., Fla., La. . 
---All States except Fla., and Ga. ..... 
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«eee THE ONE AND ONLY NATIONALLY PLANTED STRAWBERRY 
eceeee Mid-Western States, W. Va., Ohio, N. Y., Mass., Conn. . 
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Mirsigieuece est oly eee pe All States except Gulf and Southern States 
are the leaders and ones most widely planted 
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THE NATION AND ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR HARDINESS 
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