Strawberries 



to think, is largely the restilts of a difference in 

 location and soil, which fact the writers have 

 ignored to a considerable extent, laying stress 

 on method more than anything else. 



The fact is, the strawberry is a plant that 

 will do comparatively well under almost any 

 culture, provided it really is culture. Simply 

 setting out plants and letting them take care 

 of themselves after that is not culture. Culture 

 means care and attention, and if the straw- 

 berry is given even a small amount of either 

 it will do better than almost anything else 

 that can be grown in the home garden. This 

 I have satisfied myself of from several years 

 of personal experience and observation. 



So elaborate are the instructions given by 

 some writers on this fruit that the amateur 

 cannot be expected to follow them, because 

 he cannot give all his time to one phase of gar- 

 dening, as he would be obliged to do if he were 

 to set out to grow strawberries according to 

 some of the so-called scientific methods. The 

 writer of this book once attempted to do that, 

 but he soon came to the conclusion that a 

 common-sense method was preferable, and he 

 has been very well satisfied with the result. 



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