STRAWBERRY PLANTS OF QUALITY 



SET STRAWBERRY PLANTS EARLY 



Set strawberry plants early — just as soon as the ground can be 

 worked. The natural time to set all plants is in the early spring. 

 Everything in nature takes on new life at this time, and your 

 plants will do much better planted then than at any other time 

 for the following reasons: 



1 — The plants are dormant during the winter and just start 

 putting out new foliage and will stand handling better than at 

 any other time; also there is much less foliage and can be packed 

 in much smaller packages and transportation charges will be less. 



2 — Plants set in early spring, before the sun gets hot, will enable 

 them to get started much earlier. Then, there is plenty of moisture 

 at this time, something every plant must have to live, insuring a 

 good stand, if properly set, and enables plant to get a good start 

 before the dry weather sets in. 



3 — Plants will do better set early in the spring vathout fer- 

 tilizer than when set late in the spring with fertilizer; or, in 

 other words, an early planting without fertilizer is better than a 

 three or four weeks' later planting with a light application of 

 fertilizer. Then you will have them set, too, before the rush of the 

 spring work comes en. 



Be sure to set your plants early this spring. I would advise 

 ordering plants shipped early, about 10 days or two weeks before 

 you intend planting, and you can heel them in and have them there 

 ready to set when the weather is just right for setting. 



UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND 

 STATE HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT 

 CERTIFICATE OF INSPECTION No. 2 

 This is to certify, that on the 27th day of August, 1926, we exam- 

 ined the Nursery stock of M. S. Pryor's Nurseries growing in his 

 nurseries at Salisbury, County of Wicomico, State of Maryland, in 

 accordance with the laws of Maryland, 1898, Chapter 289, Section 

 58. and that said nurseries and premises are apparently free, so 

 far as can be determined by inspection, from the San Jose Scale, 

 Peach Yellows, Pear Blight and other dangerously injurious insect 

 pests and plant diseases. 



Th^'s certificate is valid until September 1st, 1927, unless sooner 

 revoked, and does not include nursery stock not grown within this 

 state, unless such stock is previously covered by Certificate and 

 accepted by the State Entomologist and State Pathologist. 



ERNEST N. CORY, State Entomologist. 

 C. E. TEMPLE, State Pathologist. 

 College Park, Md. August 10th, 1926. 



Strawberry Culture In A Nutshell 



Plant early in the spring; cut off all blossoms that appear the 

 first year; keep out the weeds and mulch with straw after the 

 ground freezes in the fall. — Dean Ralph R. Watts, in Market 

 Growers' Journal. 



