STRAWBERRY “PLANTS 
¥e<—Pot-grown plants sent 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 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 in such varieties as are unsold at that time. 
It is better, however, to procure the plants in August or September, as earlier 
plantings will develop larger and more vigorous plants and produce a greater crop of 
nr. fruit next year, 
Wrone Way oF PLANTING. PLANTED TOO DEEP. Too SHaLLow PLANTING. 
DIRECTIONS FOR GARDEN CULTURE. 
Ricut Way oF PLANTING. 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 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 moist and cool. 
Perfect and Imperfect or Pistillate Flowers. 
Varieties marked pistillate have imperfect blossoms. They include many of the 
most prolific and desirable kinds. It is only necessary to plant perfect-flowered varie- 
ties 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. Hints on varie- 
PISTILLATE OR Im- i ee A ; CAM NE : 
PERFECT Biossom. ties adapted to purposes of fertilization will be found in each case where fertilization is 
Bi-SEXUAL OR PERFECT 
needed. Bossom. 
Pot-grown versus Layer Plants. Layer Plants. 
Botte daplantel maya aepean expensive ncusyiens thier labor A full list of layer plants will be announced in September. 
necessary to grow them into proper condition and the time They are not so desirable as pot-grown plants, and will not pro- 
saved in the result of the crop are considered, they will be | duce as large a crop of fruit next spring; but they are cheaper 
found much cheaper than ordinary layer plants. They may be | and more available for extensive plantings. Under proper 
platted! aiise € Gig Gl Canihy Gumi. wegsedles Nes Wee autumn treatment they will produce quite satisfactory results 
harvested, and a crop of fruit secured in eight or ten months y I q 5 ; y : 
after planting Notr.—A “layer” strawberry plant is one that has taken 
g. 
We forward by express at the purchaser’s expense. The | root by its own effort, whereas a “ pot-grown” plant has been 
plants are packed compactly, and as light as possible, and we | aided by human skill in making strong and compact roots. 
recommend purchasers to have their orders forwarded in this 
” c i i its grow 
aa a The “ pot-grown”’ plant is stronger to begin with, and its growth 
No charge for boxes or packing. is not checked by transplanting it. 
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