DREER’S MID-SUMMER LIST. 1 
Strawberr y Plants. 
Our facilities for growing Strawberry Plants at our Nursery and Trial Farm at Riverton enables us to 
test all recently introduced and promising new varieties with the view of offering only such as show decided 
merit. 
Pot-Grown Strawberries. 
Plants set out this summer will produce a crop of fruit in June, 1895. 
Our pot-grown Strawberry plants are ready for ship- 
ment about the middle 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 fruit 
next year, besides we are usually sold out of many 
varieties later in the season. 
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 or ten months after planting. 
fes> The reduced prices of our pot-grown Strawberry 
plants, this year, should enable planters to grow more 
largely of this delicious fruit. 
Directions for Garden Culture. 
To cultivate the Strawberry for family use, we recommend planting in beds four 
feet wide, with an alley two feet wide between each bed. These beds will accommo- 
date three rows of plants, which may stand fifteen inches apart each way, and the 
outside row nine inches from the alley. The beds can be kept clean easier and 
the fruit gathered without setting the feet upon them. The ground should be (p 
well prepared by trenching or plowing at least ten or twelve inches deep, and be 
enriched with well-rotten manure, ground bone, wood ashes, or any good fertilizer. 
In setting out Port-GrowN PLANTS, press the soil firmly about the plants and 
scarcely any will fail to grow. If the weather is hot and dry, wet the~soil 
thoroughly and mulch with some coarse material until the plants are established ; 
keep well cultivated and free from weeds. When the plants begin to throw out 
runners, they should be cut off, to establish strong plants. When the ground Bisht way of Planting. 
freezes in the early winter, a slight covering of leaves or litter, or the branches of evergreen should be applied. 
This covering should not be placed over the plants until after the ground is frozen; fatal errors are often 
made by putting on too much and too early. The covering should be removed in the spring as soon as the plants 
begin to grow. Before the fruit begins to ripen mulch the plants with short hay, straw, tan-bark or other 
material that will keep the fruit clean, prevent weeds and keep the ground from baking and drying, thus 
prolonging the fruiting season. 
All varieties offered 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. 
pleasure to order and get your stock. Tt is always nice and done up in best 
Perfect Flower. of shape.—WM. REED, Chambersburg, Pa., February 17, 94 Imperfect Flower. 
The box of plants arrived here yesterday in perfect order and condition, owing, we suppose, to its packing—he best 
we have ever seen —_VIONNET & CO., Havana, Cuba, February 9,’9/. 
