THE STRAWBERBT FI.OWEB GARDEN. 
There Is certainly nothing more pleasing to the eye than a neat flower bed of any kind, and when 
we can have a beautiful llower bed loaded down with bie red berries we do not stop at pleasing the eye, 
but here Is where the stomach gets satisfaction as well. There are no {lowers that make any prettier bed 
than the strawberry plant with its green foliage, then Its load of white bloom with bright yellow center, 
and lastly the immense donation of blood red berries that make the mouth and eyes water. The city 
folks with small lots have a chance to pick fresh berries as well as bouquets; then the pleasure of grow- 
ing the berries themselves makes them taste much better. Simply mark the design wanted In the dirt 
then set plants In these marks. Let the children help take care of them until the berries are ripe, when 
it's hardly safe to have any children around under the age of 75. Just slip a few big Juicy berries Into 
the milkman's hand and they will be hint enough for him not to put any water into his products during 
the berry season. 
people would not pay a price that would justify 
the additional expense until they were suffici- 
ently educated to comprehend the difference; 
that they were forced to adopt methods which 
would enable them to grow the big plants and 
trees for the least money until people would 
pay for quality. The people wanted large, 
smooth trees and plants and it was shown that 
these could not be produced from strong, bear- 
ing wood. These were generally crooked and 
would not attain size in the same time they 
would if scions were taken from non-bearing 
wood continuously as from tips of young trees 
in the nursery row. 
Did you ever notice that a tree bearing big 
crops of fruit is always crooked and scraggly? 
When scions are taken from them, the young 
trees have the same peculiarity and while they 
would come into bearing earlier and produce 
much better fruit, yet people do not like the 
looks of them. They judge by size and not by 
the internal machinery. It is exactly the same 
with plants. They want a big plant and to get 
ii tlie nurseryman must propagate from those 
with fruit organs wasted so the resources go 
to building up the vegetable parts. 
At this nurserymen's convention. Professor 
Bailey made comparisons of plants and ani- 
mals and urged horticulturists to study the 
means adopted by stock breeders for improv- 
ing their animals and all present agreed that a 
radical change must be made; that the advance- 
ment of horticultural science was such that 
people would demand trees that possessed the 
function for making fruit of quality, and not 
wood, runners and vegetable parts. All this is 
not a mere question of manure and tillage, but 
is one of plant organism and development of 
fruit glands requiring years of selection and 
restriction. 
If there were no bud variation a strawberry 
plant could be fruited year after year, produc- 
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