PETER HEXDERSOX & CO.'S CATALOGUE OF SEEDS. 



List of Small Fruits. 



STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 



Cultivation. — The best time to plant is in April and Mar : if planted in fall, from the 

 middle of October to middle of November is the best time, as the roots are then "well 

 ripened and better able to bear transplanting than if taken np in September, when the 

 plants are still growing, and the roots soft and easily damaged by exposure. Straw- 

 berries may be grown on any soil that will produce corn or potatoes. A light clay 

 loam, "well enriched with rotten barnyard manure, is the most favorable soil for most 

 varieties. As soon as the plants are received, open the package or box at once, and. if 

 possible, plant the same day. If the ground is not ready, or for other causes the plant- 

 ing has to be delayed, untie each bundle and heel in the plants in a shady place, or cover 

 vrith damp moss and keep in a cool cellar until ready for planting. In the garden, 

 plant in rows IS inches apart, by 12 inches in the rows: after every third row, leave a 

 space of two feet instead of 18 inches for a path. In the field, for cultivation by horses, 

 the rows should be three feet apart. After the beds are marked out. make, -with a 

 hoe or a trowel, a hole for each plant, large enough to admit all the roots of the plant 

 -without crowding or bending them over. Then spread the roots in the hole and then till 

 up the hole to the cro-wn of the plant, but no more. If the ground is very dry, it is best 

 to plant towards evening, and to "water the plants -well. To secure healthy plants and a 

 bountiful crop of fruit, the year after planting, the plants should not be allowed to bear 

 the first season : the runners must be cut off before the tips take root, and the grounds 

 kept loose and free from weeds. When lasting cold -weather sets in, in this latitude about 

 the last week in November, the plants should be covered with straw or leaves, or salt 

 hay. or any other light material to the depth of one or two inches. This mulch is not 

 removed until after the bearing of the plant. In the spring, "when the strawberry 

 leaves start, open with a pointed stick or the hand, the mulch over the crown of.each 

 plant. No other care is required before bearing. After the last picking the mulch is 

 to be taken away altogether, and the beds cultivated as during the previous season. 

 A strawberry bed managed in this way will last three to four years, so that in order to 

 secure a full supply of berries every season, a new bed should be laid out every second 

 year. 



Varieties. 



Neunan's Prolific. This is the celebrated " Charleston Strawberry.'-' which created 

 so much astouishmeut iu the northern markets. Its introduction into cultivation in the 

 Southern States has made the strawberry season in the northern cities two weeks 

 earlier than formerly — berries of this variety having been offered for sale in New York 

 iu the month of March. The plaut is veryprolific and hardy at the North, as well as at 

 the South. The berries are of good size and quality, firm, and have every requisite ne- 

 cessary for a first-class market fruit. Price, 83 per dozen : 8*20 per hundred. 



Champion. A seedling of the Green Prolific. This new variety produces berries 

 of immense size. The average weight of some exhibited at our store last season was one 

 ounce for each berry, with a circumference of six inches. The productiveness of the plants 

 is immense, many of the bushes yielding two quarts of berries. Fruit irregular, globe- 

 shaped, of dark crimson color and good quality. SI per dozen : §6 per hundred. 



General Collection. 



Perdoz. Per 50. Per 100. Per 1000. 



Agriculturist..-. 8 50 8100 8150 810 00 



Black Defiance 1 00 3 00 6 00 



Charles Downing- 50 100 150 10 00 



Downer, (Downer's Prolific.) 50 100 150 10 00 



Dr. Warder, (new.) 100 3 00 6 00 



Green Prolific 50 100 150 10 00 



Jucunda - 50 100 2 00 15 00 



Kentucky 50 100 150 15 00 



Late Prolific, (new.) 100 3 00 6 00 



Lennig's White 50 100 2 00 15 00 



Monarch of the West 100 3 00 6 00 



Nicanor 50 100 150 10 00 



President Wilder 50 100 ,2 00 15 00 



Seth Boy-den 50 100 150 10 00 



Triornphe de Gand - 50 1 00 1 50 10 00 



Wilson, (Wilson's Albany.) 50 100 150 10 00 



(In addition to these we cultivate over one hundred varieties of Strawberries, com- 

 prising nearly every named kind grown in this country, and can furnish them in small 

 quantities, at 50 cents per dozen.) 



