Small Fruits. 
The small fruits are of the greatest importance, and whether for home use or profitable marketing, cannot 
be overlooked by any intelligent cultivator. We take them up first, as of first importance. 
STRAWBERRIES. 
CULTURE. 
PERFECT FLOWER. 
-Many points are to be learned in this line of horticulture in one’s life ; hence, with a life-lone 
' experience ° ne ",’ us ‘ P rofil by it. It would be useless for us to rehearse alY the points wf 
of lit out 111 the past through the journals of the country, setting forth the methods 
‘f and mark .?. tlng the crop. Ill this brief space we can only allude to this point but 
in a brief way we will try and cover the ground. poim, out 
. . With the standard berries of the day, it is no trick to grow from 150 to 2S0 bushels of 
this fruit per acre, if the proper care is given and the best varieties planted 
One would think it useless to work a bed once a week ; but here is one point not to be 
roots dMiVh’t m tlvatIot V ? heck f evaporation, and admits air to the soil, which the plant 
crop of thf future T ’ US ’ by frequent culture y° u add both to the root-growth and the 
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replowed in the spring, with a light coat of manure plowed under, and the same worked in from top. 
The soil cannot be too well prepared ; the more work put on it, the less it will require in the future 
n „„p, a ppp.' w . e recommend barn-yard manure above all others. Commercial fertilizers with us have never 
proved a profitable investment ; hence we pay more in proportion for the former than the latter The manure 
many't i iru» the y0U kn ° W " 0t the hoUr its stre " gth will be exhausted, and 
YVe advise working the manure into the soil from the top by plow or harrow • it is then placed in read, „r 
the plant roots ; when plowed under it is seldom reached, and the plant proper receives but liule froni it 
* kANTINXx.— -The planting of a bed is the most important part. It costs von cam** 
stand of plants as it does good ones ; hence, the importance of well-rooted strong plants ' ‘ e a po0r 
if plmitei? to" 1 shallow, "th^same" 16 * 1 deeper tha '' “ St °° d the bed ; when P lal ' ted t0 ° d ^P it will not grow, and 
We use a spade and line for setting ; have our plants all dug, and when we are ready it is but a small i„i, 
or find at'anytlnie."^ * «“ P" W no? A 
-Jfsftsaw £StiiS2isszst& saj wswwr* " ed i -‘~ «* «*« 
basket's" wfdcb a ^® a11 stn PPed of surplus leaves and runners, and put in bunches of twenty-five packed in liirlit 
«rc k /r«e loname^ * eXpresS charges - and cause 110 daa ger of heating. All our plants P k 
AND IMPERFECT BLOSSOMS.— Strawberries are all perfect or im- 
perfect, 01 in other words, male and female. Those marked (P) are imperfect and destitute 
Ues ever'^uiret 'four or" /, ve'rows" 0 * hat they Ca " be fertiHzed with Perfect-flowering varie- 
and one late; Thfs wihadd t" cropmidlizV'oYfruh. 8 tOSet tW ° VaHetieS betwee "-°"« early 
fm.nrfUhe m e ,°iF le ar « prejudicec 1 against pistillate varieties. This should not be. We have 
famih/'nsi i he m r St P rod V ct ; ve ' . hence , better paying and less injured by late frost. For 
t , n !,nc *K P. refer a perfect variety , as they are somewhat easier handled ; but for profit 
the one that produces the most salable fruit is what we want. 1 ’ IMPERFECT FLOWE r. 
