GARDEN MANUAL FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES. 
Pure Improved Hoffman Straw- 
berry. 
If an experienced grower or com- 
mission merchant was asked what 
variety of strawberries, owing to 
its size, brilliant coloring and per- 
fect shipping qualities, brought uni- 
formly the highest price on the 
market there could be but one an- 
swer—Hoffman. It stands drought 
well, the berry seeming to be com- 
posed more largely of solid matter 
than other varieties. Hence its un- 
surpassed firmness and high value 
as a shipping berry. It has a special 
value to growers who have to 
ship a long distance to ‘market 
without refrigeration. Its great 
firmness enables it to carry fresh 
and bright a very long. dis- 
tance without ice. Price, 60c. per 
100; $5.00 per 1000. 
Senator Dunlap Strawberry. 
Immense producer of firm berries of 
the highest flavor and beautiful color; 
thrifty grower and splendid drought re- 
sister. Per 100, 75c.; per 1000, $6.00. 
Excelsior Strawberry. 
The most profitable extra early berry q 
grown. It is four to six days earlier than 
the Michel; firm and good _ shipper; 
stands heat and drought second to none; 
beautiful deep blood red to center; ex- 
ceedingly productive, thrifty and rank in 
growth; berries large and good shape; it 
is a staminate or self-pollenizer. 75c. 
per 100; $6.00 per 1000. 
Lady Thompson Strawberry. 
The marvelous vigor and immense pro- 
ductiveness of this berry, its ability to 
adapt itself to all soils and all climates; 
its apparent indifference to heat, drought 
or flood, has rendered strawberry grow- 
ing profitable over vast regions where 
most other varieties could not be grown 
with profit, if at all. 
ly easy plant to live and is quick to 
grow off, rain or no rain. Hence its 
great value, especially for fall planting. 
Price, 60c. per 100, $5.00 per 1000. 
Number of Strawberry Plants Required 
to Plant an Acre. 
11000 to acre, 4 ft. rows. 
12,500 to acre, 3% ft. rows. 
14,000 to acre, 3 ft. rows. 
12 in. apart in row. 
12 000 to acre is the average number in 
this vicinity. 
Where 11,000 plants are put on an acre 
they are more easily cultivated with a 
horse, and the fruit is likely to be larger. 
PECAN TREES. 
We are often asked, “How many years 
| after planting will a Pecan Orchard be- 
It is an exceeding- | 
come a paying investment?” 
After considerable investigation, we 
conclude that it will be in about ten 
years. Although, under favorable con- 
ditions, the trees at six years after plant- 
ing will show some fruit, and in the 
seventh, eighth and ninth years may 
yield enough to pay working expenses, 
still it will be at least ten years before 
a profitable crop can be expected. We 
think that they will not reach the maxi- 
mum yield until about thirty years after 
planting. 
It is understood that this conclusion is 
based on the supposition that the best 
varieties of budded or grafted trees are 
planted. 
Of course, it can be shown that results 
better than this have been obtained, but 
we are now considering returns that may 
be expected from an orchard on a large 
scale; not such as have been received 
from a few trees here and there forced 
under the best conditions. 
Pecan growing is such a solid, certain 
profitable business that it is really un- 
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