CUMBERLAND. 
EARLY TO MEDIUM. Bl-sexual. It is that 
great big crimson berry so sweet that even an Invalid 
can eat It. Many people who cannot eat a sour berry 
can eat of this to their fill. Splendid berry for com- 
pany when you serve with stems. Not a very good 
shipper and will look dull If left in sunshine for a 
considerable time after picking. Pedigree of twenty 
years selection and restriction. The calls for plants 
are increasing every year. 
the plants, giving them all the opportunity 
possible, and by working to their interest they 
will most surely reciprocate. 
THE NARROW MATTED ROW. 
The narrow matted row is the next best. 
The row is allowed to fill in so when full it 
will not be over a foot wide. Plants must not 
be allowed to set so thickly as to exclude sun- 
shine from the crown. Then all the runners 
are cut for the rest of the season. The rows 
should be three feet apart and plants about 
30 inches in the row. A sharp pointed hoe is 
best for working around among the plants. 
THE WIDE MATTED ROW. 
The rows are made four feet apart and 
plants set about 24 inches apart. As the run- 
ners form, the cultivator is narrowed up, al- 
ways going in the same direction so as to 
throw them around to fill in the row and 
generally leaving it about 30 inches wide, with 
an alley about 18 inches wide. This system 
has been handed down to us by our ancestors 
and is still in use. It is perhaps best on very 
poor land, or where you have reason to be- 
lieve there are white grubs. 
_ Our objection to it is that the plants are 
liable to form too thick and it is a serious 
task to thin them out because it injures the 
plants which are to remain. The crowded 
leaves turn their edges up so they do not have 
full exposure to sunshine. There are too many 
srfiall berries and for want of air and sun- 
shine they do not have quality. A small berry 
has as many seeds as a large one, and since it 
is the pollen and seeds that sap the vitality of 
the plant, one big crop uses them up so the 
second and third crop cannot amount to much. 
Of course, the berries are very uneven in size 
and do not look well in the box. The pickers 
LO't'ETT. 
EARL.Y. Bi-sexual. Extra good pollenizer as It 
has such a long season of blooming, throwing a large 
amount of rich pollen. It is remarkably productive 
of dark red, rather long berries; the picture ■ shows it 
exactly, good size and very popular In many localities, 
gaining friends as it goes. The foliage Is a darlc 
green with a rich glow. This is the tlilrteenth year 
of selection and restriction, making continuous gains 
and all growers LOVETT. 
injure the leaves more or less in pawing them 
over in hunting for the berries, and as a rule 
the last berries will be too small to pick. 
In nearly every case where the plants are 
quite thick, fully a half or a third of the ber- 
ries will be left as too small to put in the box, 
and these continue to take the resources of 
the plant. We quit the full matted row busi- 
ness 20 years ago. 
LOCATION AND VARIETIES. 
We are asked many times during the year 
to suggest varieties and we confess nothing 
is more difficult, for like choosing personal 
friends for another, we do not always know 
just what the personal tastes of the inquirers 
are. It is a little like choosing the best fellow 
or best girl for some one else. Some way we 
can't see with the same eyes nor do we have 
the same taste. To all these inquirers we 
have to say that the strawberry is the most 
universal fruit in the world. Unlike the tree 
and bush fruits, hardiness is not a factor, since 
all varieties are hardy. The finest strawber- 
ries in the world are found in Alaska, even 
near the Arctic Circle, and along the Hudson 
Bay, and the same varieties flourish in Flor- 
ida, Cuba, and Mexico, and even in South 
America, Europe and Asia. It is not fastidi- 
ous, but it does enjoy good food and generous 
tillage. It succeeds on all good garden soils 
where farm and garden vegetables will grow. 
It is true that varieties, like all other ))lants, 
differ in their beliavior on different soils and 
methods of culture. One variety makes long 
roots and penetrates the soil deeply and will 
therefore succeed on dry land where another 
with short roots will require a heavy, na- 
turally moist soil with an extra allowance of 
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