PISTILLATE OR 

 IMPERFECT BLOSSOM 



BISEXUAL OR 

 PERFECT BLOSSOM 



Pot-grown plants set out this summer will produce 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 Potgrown Strawberry Plants are usually 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 develop 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. 



W^ Directions for Garden Culture 



RIGHT WAY OF 



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 entire bed an inch deep 

 PLANTING 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 gar- 

 deners, 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 moist and cool. 



WRONG WAY OF PLANTING 



PLANTED TOO DEEP 



Perfect and Imperfect or Pistillate Flowers 



Varieties marked pistillate have imperfect blos- 

 soms. They include many of the most prolific and desir- 

 able kinds. It i'S only necessary to plant perfect-flowered 

 varieties near 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 sum- 

 mer vegetables has been harvested, and a crop of fruit 

 secured in eight to ten months after planting. 



Layer Plants 



A full list of layer plants will be given in our Autumn Cata- 

 logue, 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 are cheaper and more available for extensive plant- 

 ing. Under proper autumn treatment they produce quite satisfactory 

 results. A ' ' layer ' ' strawberry plant is one that has taken root by its 

 own eflfort, 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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