A-B-C OF VEGETABLE GARDENING 



Now I claim that strawberries do pay if 

 they get the right kind of treatment. No 

 one has a right to expect much from them if 

 he simply sticks a plant into the soil and 

 leaves it to take care of itself thereafter. 

 Straw^berries cultivated in this manner donH 

 ip^j, I admit. And it is well that they do 

 not, for no one has a right to expect much, 

 if anything, from a plant of any kind that he 

 isn't willing to take good care of. ^^Tiile the 

 strawberry will not take care of itself, it 

 really requires no more attention than most 

 other crops. And as to running out,'' that 

 cuts no figure, when you come to think 

 about it, because doing things all over 

 again" amounts to no more than planting 

 vegetables each season. This has to be done 

 yearly, and strawberries will demand only 

 annual attention, thus putting the two classes 

 of plants on practically the same basis. 



I am aware that some liters on straw- 

 berry culture have ventilated a good many 

 far-fetched ideas of their own in print rela- 

 tive to the culture of this plant, and so 

 elaborate and complicated are some of these 

 theories that many an amateur has, after 

 reading them, abandoned the idea of having 

 a strawberry-bed. But it is a fact susceptible 



of proof by any man who gives it a trial that 



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