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DISTANCE TO PLANT. Matted Row. For this system the rows should be from 

 31/2 to four feet apart with the plants set from 15 to 24 inches in the row, according 

 to the varieties set. Heavy bedding varieties such as Senator Dunlap, Premier, Dr. 

 Burrill and others should be set farther apart than varieties like Chesapeake, Lupton 

 and other varieties that make very large plants but not so many of them. 



Hill System. If you decide to use this system rows should be 30 inches apart one 

 way and 15 inches the other with the plants set in the check. All runners should be 

 kept cut off. Under this system the berries will be much larger than if grown in the 

 matted row, but labor costs prohibit this system unless space is very limited. 



FERTILIZATION. If you have barnyard manure broadcast after plowing and 

 disced in, this is a fine way to improve vour land and insure you a fine berry patch with 

 lots of fancy fruit, but commercial fertilizer can be used with very satisfactory results. 

 We find 400 pounds of dissolved bone and 100 pounds of acid phosphate per acre used 

 in the drill about a week before the plants are set or along side the plants after setting 

 and thoroughly hoed or cultivated in will give excellent results. Where it is applied 

 broadcast 1,000 pounds of the mixture per acre has proven very satisfactory, but be 

 sure to harrow it in thoroughly before setting the plants. Do not use over 500 pounds 

 in the drill, for too heavy an application of any commercial fertilizer will be very in- 

 jurious to the plants. 



Another application of about 800 pounds per acre as a top dressing late in the 

 summer when the plantbed is almost made or early in the spring before plant growth 

 starts, of a mixture containing 4 per cent to 7 per cent nitrogen and from 5 per cent 

 to ten per cent phosphoric acid, with little potash. 



We believe late summer is the best time for if applied then you will have stronger 

 and more vigorous plants as it takes strong plants to produce large fancy berries. All 

 fertilizer should be brushed off the leaves. 



MATING VARIETIES. There are two sexes of strawberry plants — male and 

 female — listed in this book as perfect and imperfect, (in our price list perfect flower- 

 ing varieties are followed by "Per" and imperfect by "Imp"). The perfect flowering 

 sorts will produce as well by themselves as with the imperfect varieties, but the im- 

 perfect will produce very poorly, if at all, without the perfect varieties. They should 

 be planted four rows of the imperfect flowering varieties and two rows of the perfect 

 flowering varieties, of the same season, and so on across the field, or they may be plant- 

 ed in the same row using one-fourth perfect and three-fourths imperfect. 



REMOVING BLOSSOMS AND MULCHING. All strawberry plants begin to 

 bloom soon after being set in the spring and if the fruit is allowed to ripen the plants 

 will be greatly weakened, therefore all blossoms should be removed. This is very 

 important for it may mean success or failure. On everbearing varieties the blossoms 

 should be removed twice before the berries are allowed to ripen, other than this the 

 everbearers are given the same treatment as the standard varieties. 



Mulching is a wonderful way to protect the plants from freezing and thawing of 

 the soil in winter, to preserve moisture during a dry fruiting season and to keep the 

 berries from being spattered with dirt during a rain. 



Use straw, coarse manure or similar material, apply in the fall and in the spring 

 when growth starts rake off the beds into the center of the row; there it also serves 

 the purpose of retarding the growth of weeds. 



Will Send Future Orders More Than Satisfied 



Dear Sirs: Palmyra, N. Y., April 22, 1933. Gentlemen: Masseua Center, N. Y., May 13, 1933. 



Received the 500 Senator Dunlap plants in fine Must write you to say your strawberry plants 



shape. They certainly were well rooted plants. arrived in excellent condition. They are wonderful 



Will give you my order again when in need of stock. plants and I am more than satisfied. Your prices 



Thanks for extra plants. are very reasonable. Thanks for the splendid plants. 



Yours truly, Clarence Skeel. Yours truly, Mrs. Thos. W. Rickard. 



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Gentlemen: Saugerties, N. Y., April 25, 1933. Dear Sirs: Port Royal, Pa., May 6, 1933. 



Received my plants in fine condition. Enclosed I received the plants this morning in excellent 



please find money order for which please send me condition and wish to thank you for the extra plants 



another 1,000 Mastodon everbearers. and your prompt service. Yours truly,, Wm. Moyer. 



Yours very truly, Claude Finger. ^^ i,r ii o x- c j ^ j a 



Very Well Satisfied, Orders Again 



Appreciates Service Dear Sirs: Westfield, Pa., April 25, 1933. 

 Dear Sirs: Stroudsburg, Pa.. May 13, 1933. I am afraid I am sending in my order a little 

 Received plants by parcel post and they were late. We ordered plants of you three years ago, 

 fine. I certainly appreciate what you have done 500 each of the same varieties I am ordering now. 

 for me and will recommend you to anyone I know. I am resetting them this year. We were well satis- 

 Thanking you again for your extra trouble and fied with the plants we ordered of you before and 

 assuring you my order next spring, I am we had the loveliest berries I ever saw. 



Sincerely yours, Geo. G. Spring. Yours truly, Mrs. Belle Brown. 



