GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1915 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
ENHANCE, A STRONG AND POPULAR MID-SEASON VARIETY 
l^NHANCE is a variety growing rapidly into popularity over a large section of the United States. In season it ranges from 
" medium to late. It is a strong bisexual and a perfect pollenizer of pistillate varieties. The fruit is large, bright red, firm 
and of excellent quality. The plants are hardy, healthy and vigorous. It is a strong pollenizer. is seldom affected by rust or 
blight, and when the autumn season is long and warm a generous second crop frequently is gathered. In Southern California 
Enhance enjoys great pre-eminence among the most extensive growers there. Grown at Three Rivera and Twin Falls farms. 
— from the barnyard, from the poultry yard, or 
in the case of the commercial fertilizers — the 
best results will be obtained when the materials 
are thoroughly incorporated with the soil. See 
to it, also, that your soil is made firm and suf- 
ficiently fine to hold large quantities of moisture. 
Strawberry plants cannot do their best when set 
in soil where there are clods underneath the fine 
surface. The soil must be made fine and firm to 
the full depth of the plowing. 
Setting Out the Plants 
'T'HIS is a very simple and easy task. Many of 
•*■ our employes set as high as 2,500 plants and 
more in a single day. Simply make an opening 
in the soil (our dibble is ideal for this purpose) 
and place the roots straight down into the open- 
ing. See to it that the roots are well spread. In 
order to accomplish this result the plants should 
be pruned just before setting and before the 
bunches are loosened. Pruning consists simply 
in cutting off about one-third of the roots and is 
very quickly done. One great advantage of cut- 
ting off the roots is the fact that the roots thus 
cut will soon callous over and this will aid in the 
formation of a multitude of feeding roots. An- 
other advantage of cutting off the roots is that it 
enables the plants to take hold of the soil quickly, 
resulting in a more rapid growth than otherwise 
would take place. 
After the opening is made and the plant is 
set in place, press the soil firmly against the roots 
and see that the crown of the plant is left just 
above the surface of the soil. Some growers pre- 
fer to use a spade in setting the plants. To do so 
it requires two men for the work. One man 
makes the opening with the spade while the other 
places the plant into the opening. As the man 
with the spade moves forward, the other man 
steps close to the plant and firms the soil against 
the roots with his foot. 
When the roots are placed straight down into 
the opening and the soil is pressed closely against 
the roots moisture quickly comes in contact with 
the roots and this encourages rapid growth. The 
proper time for setting out strawberry plants in 
your latitude will be at the same time that gen- 
eral garden-making is going forward in the spring. 
In some latitudes fall setting of plants is pre- 
ferred. In states in the latitudes north of the 
Ohio River at least 90 per cent of all strawberry 
plants are set in the spring of the year, but 
throughout the Southern states a large proportion 
of strawberry plants are set in the fall of the year 
— say from September 15th to November 1st, de- 
pending, of course, upon the latitude. We ad- 
vise spring setting always. 
Mating of Plants 
pLANT LIFE, no less than animal life, is di- 
* vided between the sexes — "male and female, 
created He them." And this fact is of profound 
importance to the horticulturist, for without 
proper mating of the sexes and the reproduction 
of the species of plants through sexual contact 
(pollen from the male or bisexual fertilizing the 
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