DREER'S MID-SUMMER LIST. 



Strawberry Plants. 



On r facilities for growing Strawberry Plants at our Nursery and Trial Farm at Riverton enables us to 

 test all recently introduced and promising new varieties with the view of offering only such as show decided 

 merit. 



Fnt-Grnwii Strawberries. 



Plants set out this summer will produce a crop of fruit in June, i8g6. 



Our pot-grown Strawberry plants are ready for ship- 

 ment about the middle of July, and can be supplied as 

 late as October in such varieties as are unsold at that 

 time. 



It is better, however, to procure the plants in August 

 or September, as earlier plantings will develop larger and 

 more vigorous plants and produce a greater crop of fruit 

 next year, besides we are usually sold out of many 

 varieties later in the season. 



Potted plants may appear expensive, yet when the 

 labor necessary to grow them into proper condition and 

 the time saved in the result of the crop are considered, 

 they will be found much cheaper than ordinary layer 

 plants. They may be planted after a crop of early sum- 

 mer vegetables has been harvested, and a crop of fruit 

 secured in eight or ten months after planting. 



We forward by express at the purchaser's expense. 

 The plants are packed compactly, and as light as possible, 

 and we recommend purchasers to have their orders 

 forwarded in this manner. No charge for boxes or 

 packing. 



Pot-Grown Strawberry Plant. 



Directions for Garden Culture. 



To cultivate the Strawberry for family use, we recommend planting in beds four 

 feet wide, with an alley two feet wide between each bed. These beds will accommo- 

 date three rows of plants, which may stand fifteen inches apart each way, and the 

 outside row nine inches from the alley. The beds can be kept clean easier and 

 the fi uit gathered without setting the feet upon them. The ground should be 

 well prepared by trenching or plowing at least ten or twelve inches deep, and be 

 enriched with well-rotten manure, ground bone, wood ashes, or any good fertilizer. 

 In setting out Pot-Grown Plants, press the soil firmly about the plants and 

 ^scarcely any will fail to grow. If the weather is hot and dry, wet the soil 

 thoroughly and mulch with some coarse material until the plants are established ; 

 keep well cultivated and free from weeds. When the plants begin to throw out 

 runners, they should be cut off, to establish strong plants. When the ground Ki S nt Way of Planting. 

 freezes in the early winter, a slight covering of leaves or litter, or the branches of evergreen should be aopjied. 

 This covering should not be placed over the plants until after the ground is frozen ; fatal errors arwoften 

 made by putting on too much and too early. The covering should be removed in the spring as soon as the plants 

 begin to grow. Before the fruit begins to ripen mulch the plants with short hay, straw, tan-bark or other 

 material that will keep the fruit clean, prevent weeds and keep the ground from baking and drying, thus 

 prolonging the fruiting season. 



All varieties offered in this list have perfect or bi-sexual blossoms, 

 except those marked (P), which are destitute of stamens, and are 

 termed pistillate or imperfect flowering varieties, and must be 

 planted near some perfect flowering sort, or they will produce little 

 or no fruit. 



" I wish to thank you for the strawberry plants you sent to General E. C. 

 Williams. Very stronr/ well rooted plants, never planted belter ones." 

 May 2nd, 1895. BENNO LWBIQ, Chapman, Snyder Oo„ Fenntt, 



