DREER'S MID-SUMMER LIST. 



Strawberry Plants. 



Oar facilities for growing Strawberry Plants at our Nursery and Trial Farm at Eiverton enable us to test all 

 recently introduced and promising new varieties with the view of offering only such as show decided merit. 



POT=QROWN STRAWBERRIES. 



Plants set out this sum= 



mer will produce a 



crop of fruit in 



June, 1897. 



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 AugustorSeptember, 

 as earlier plantings will develop 

 larger and more vigorous plants 

 and produce a greater crop of 

 fruit next year ; besides, we are 

 usually sold out of many varieties 

 later in the season. 



Potted plants may appear 

 expensive, j'et 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 vege- 

 tables has been harvested, and a 

 crop of fruit secured in eight or 

 ten mouths after planting. 



We forward by express at the 

 purchaser's expense. The plants 

 are packed compactly, and as 

 light as possible, and we recom- 

 mend purchasers to have their 

 orders forwarded in this manner. 

 No charge for boxes or packing. 



POT-GKOWN STKAWBEBBY PLANT. 



Bi-sexual or Perfect 

 Blossom. 



DIRECTIONS FOR GARDEN CULTURE. 



To cultivate strawberries for family use, we recommend a thorough prep- 

 aration 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 suflScient 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 



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. 



All varieties oflered in this list have perfect or bi-sexual blossoms, except those marked {P). which are destitute of 



stamens, and are termed pistillate or imperfect flowering varieties, and must be planted near some perfect flowering sort, 



or they will produce little or no fruit. 



Pistillate or Im- 

 l>erfect Blossoiu. 



It involves the 



Wrong Way of Planting. 



Plauced too Deep. 



Too Shallow Planting, 



Bight Way of Planting. 



