Directions for Garden Culture 



Pot-grown plants set out this summer will pro- 

 duce a FULL CROP of fruit next June. 



Our facilities for growing Strawberry Plants at our Nursery and Trial Farm, at Riverton, N. J., 

 enable us to test all recently introduced and promising new varieties with the view of offering only such 

 as show decided merit. 



TIME OF SHIPMENT our Pot-grown strawberry Plants are ready for shipment 

 -^——-^-—————————^—^——-^—-— ----—-. the latter part of July and can be supplied as late as 



October. It is better, however, to procure the plants in 

 August or September, as earlier plantings detelop larger and more vigorous plants and produce a greater 

 crop of fruit next year. 



We forward by express, at the purchaser's expense. The plants are packed compactly, and as 

 light as possible, and we recommend purchasers to have their orders forwarded in this manner. We make 

 no charge for boxes or packing. 



To cultivate Strawberries for family use, we 

 recommend a thorough preparation of the 

 ground by spading or plowing. Work into the soil a liberal quantity of well-rotted manure. Use also our 

 brands of ground bone and wood ashes. Plant in rows two feet apart ; the plants fifteen inches apart in 

 rows. Pinch off all runners. Cultivate frequently. In December cover the entite bed an inch deep 

 with straw or long litter from the stable. In late March remove litter from crowns of the plants, but not 

 from the alleys. Use sufficient straw about plants to keep the berries clean. This is the " hill " system 

 of strawberry growing, and is especially adapted to summer and autumn planting. It involves the most 

 work, but produces finest berries and largest crop from a given area. 



The " matted row " plan, more especially suited to spring planting, is used by all 

 market gardeners, and is adapted to family gardens also. It is substantially as follows : 

 Prepare the ground as above. Set the plants in rows three feet apart, and fifteen inches 

 apart in rows : permit runners to form and take root ; cultivate the alleys continually, as 

 close to the plants as possible, finally making alley and row each about eighteen inches 

 in width. Keep the bed wholly free of weeds. Cover in winter, as above, and in March ^ 

 uncover crowns of plants. Use plenty of mulching, so as to keep berries clean and ground V^ 

 moist and cool. V 



Perfect and Imperfect or Pistillate Flowers 



Varieties marked pistillate have imperfect blossoms. They include many of the moit bisexual or per- 

 prolific and desirable kinds. It is only necessary to plant perfect-flowered varieties near tECT BLOSSOM 

 them, in the proportion of one to four ; either one plant to four in the row, or 

 one row of perfect flowering plants to four rows of pistillate plants. 



Pot-Grown versus I^ayer Plants 



Potted plants may appear expensive, yet when the labor necessary to 

 grow them into proper condition and the time saved in the result of the 

 crop are considered, they will be found much cheaper than ordinary layer 

 plants. They may be planted after ,a crop of early summer vegetables has 

 been harvested, and a crop of fruit secured in eight to ten months after 

 planting. 



WRONG WAY OF PLANTING 



PLAN I ED TOO DEEP 



PISTILLATE OR 

 IMPERFECT BLOSSOM 



Layer Plants 



A full list of layer plants will be given in our Autumn Catalogue, 

 which we issue in September. They are not so, desirable as pot-grown plants, 

 and will not produce as large a crop of fruit next spring ; but they aie cheaper 

 and more available for extensive planting, tender proper autumn treatment 

 they produce quite satisfactory results. 



A "layer" strawberry plant is one that has taken root by its own 

 effort, whereas a "pot-grown" plant, having all the fine fibrous roots confined 

 in the pot, is not checked in growth by transplanting. 



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