12 RAYNE'R BROTHERS, SALISBURY, MD. 



hill system, mark off rows 30 inches one way and 15 inches the other, 

 setting plants in the check with a garden trowel; get the roots 

 straight down and spread them out; have crown of plant level with 

 the surface of the ground. All runner plants should be kept cut off. 

 Under this system berries will be much larger, a quart of berries can 

 be grown on a single plant. 



The most popular method is the narrow matted row. For this 

 system rows should be marked off 42 inches apart and plants set from 

 15 to 24 inches apart in the row, according to variety. After beds 

 get to be 8 or 10 inches wide all runners should be kept cut off. 



FERTILIZATION — If commercial fertilizer is to be used; broad- 

 cast on the land at least two weeks before planting and work into the 

 land thoroughly. We find about 800 pounds of bone meal per acre 

 will give very satisfactory results; too heavy an application of any 

 commercial fertilizer will be injurious to the plants. Anotiier appli- 

 cation of about 1,000 pounds 5-8-5 per acre, in the late summer, is 

 advisable to make strong, vigorous plants, for it takes a strong plant 

 to produce large berries. All fertilizer should be brushed off the 

 leaves. 



HOEING AND CULTIVATING— Begin cultivating soon after 

 the plants are set; cultivate shallow, about once a week if possible, all 

 through the growing season. Hoe when necessary to keep the weeds 

 down, and remember, hoe shallow and cultivate shallow so as not to 

 disturb the roots. 



MATING VARIETIES— There are two sexes of strawberry plants 

 male and female, listed in this book as perfect and imperfect. The 

 perfect flowering varieties will produce as well by themselves as with 

 the imperfect flowering sorts but the imperfect sorts will produce 

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

 planted 4 rows of imperfect flowering sorts then 2 rows of some 

 perfect flowering variety, of the same season, and so on across the 

 field, or they may be planted in the same row using one fourth of 

 the perfect sorts. 



REMOVING BLOSSOMS— All strawberry plants begin to blossom 

 very 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 may mean success or failure. On everbearing sorts 

 the blossoms should be removed twice before the berries are allowed 

 to ripen, other than this everbearing sorts are given the same care 

 as standard varieties. 



Dear Sirs: New York, May 10, 1927. 



My plants came today and they are very nice. Packed in fine 

 shape. I am sending you another order. Respectfully, 



Howard Bathrick. 



