BEUKKWUUD. 
MEDIUM EARX.T. Bi-sexual. Always on hand 
with a big crop of most beautiful ciinison berries of 
extra high quality, laying In windrows all around the 
plants. It is very popular throughout the country 
and is ready for a large business In almost any good 
soil: the reports we get on it are all good, its 
productiveness of such high quality berries is not all 
for it Is exceedingly valuable as a poUenizer. It is a 
strong grower with an abundance of foliage to pro- 
tect its bloom, and Is also very deep rooted. Eighteen 
years selection and testing gives us confidence In 
recommending It so highly. 
The cultivator can be made to cover almost 
the entire surface, making hand work about as 
small as possible. The dust mulch can be kept 
on the surface so all the water is breathed 
away by the plants. The plants will not get 
too large so as to crowd into the center. The 
leaves form an oval ridge, giving perfect ex- 
posure to sunshine, while the alley between 
the rows gives ample root pasturage. 
The berries will all be large and even in size 
so they look vc-y beautiful in the box. There 
are so few small ones tliat it does not pay to 
cvsxas. 
Medium early to late, bl-sexnal. This is one of 
Frank E. Beatty's pets. He has five acres of Clydes 
in one block at his Covington, Indiana, farm, and 
ships them out by the dray load, some going 225 
miles to the Burnet Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio. It is ex- 
ceedingly productive of extra large berries that are a 
most beautiful crimson color, never mis-shapen. 
They are nearly all the same size, running so even 
that sorting is hardly necessary; when nicely ar- 
ranged In the box they look like wax, all moulded 
alike. One side Is a bright crimson while the other 
has a rich creamy color with just enough pink to 
make it show off well. It possibly has the longest 
fruiting season of any on the list. We have had them 
s:art to ripen a few days after the earliest and con- 
tinue with big berries clear through the entire straw- 
berry season. 
The foliage is light green and has a wonderful 
power in building up a big crown system. It is a sight 
■worth seeing at blooming time; the entire foliage Is 
covered with a snow white veil, dotted with rich gold- 
en pollen. Use plenty of manure, get your soil rich, 
use cultivator and hoes often, top dress with 75 lbs. 
nitrate of soda In the spring before growth starts 
and the big crimson creamy berries will do the rest. 
Eleventh year of careful selection; big foliage being 
the most Important point in the breeding. 
DOUBLE HEDQE ROW 
sort them. The pickers can make more money 
picking at a cent a quart than at two cents in 
wide matted rows where they have to spend 
much time in hunting through a mass of foli- 
age. The berries just lie in wind-rows along 
each side and about all a picker has to do is to 
examine their ripeness. 
DOUBLE HEDGE ROW. 
This is unquestionably the ideal way to 
grow varieties which are disposed to develop 
a thin foliage, as for example the Clyde, as 
they will give more berries with this system 
than in the single hedge row, and the berries 
will grow fully as large, making many more 
bushels to the acre. Their foliage being thin 
it also makes it more possible to protect the 
fruit from sun scald. The plants are set 
twenty-four inches apart in the row, allowing 
each one to make four runners, layering them 
so that each parent plant together with the 
tour sets form a letter X; this gives one-third 
more plants than the single hedge system, 
and at the same time gives each plant ample 
room for sunshine and food, so they can do 
heavy work as they are spread out wider. 
Varieties making a thick heavy foliage 
should not be grown in the double hedge row, 
as they would make too much shade to de- 
velop up a big crop of berries. Each variety 
should be grown under the system best 
adapted to its original habit of growth, which 
will prevent it from laboring under any dis- 
advantage. Make everything congenial for 
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