Fruit Department — Strawberries 
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STRAWBERRIES 
A LITTLE “patch” of this luscious small fruit will furnish a table with a 
delightful dish for many days, and at an early time in the season when 
one’s appetite refuses to relish the long winter diet of canned fruits. Small 
space, a few moments’ care now and then, and many meals rounded out with 
the excellently flavored fruit. 
The Strawberry will succeed in any soil that is adapted to ordinary farm or 
garden crops. Prepare the soil thoroughly to a good depth. For home use plant 
in beds, if crowded for space, setting the plants 20 inches apart each way, leaving 
30 inches between every third row. Keep the weeds out and let the runners root 
until the bed is evenly set with plants 6 inches apart, then allow no more to set. 
In the early spring stir the ground about the plants slightly with a fork, and mulch 
with fine straw or hay to protect the berries from the ground and keep them free 
from grit. After the season is ended cultivate with hoe, cutting out the surplus 
runners to transplant into a new bed. For field culture plant in rows 3 feet 
apart and 12 inches apart in the row. 
The varieties designed “ Imperfect” are pistillate or destitute of stamens, and 
must be planted near the “Perfect” or staminate varieties, so their flowers may be 
fertilized. This fact must be noted when ordering. In field growing every third 
row should be of “Perfect” varieties. Our list includes only standard, tested 
varieties, which we know are successful. 
Prices, 60 cents per 100, $4 per 1,000 
Bubach. Imperfect. Large to very large ; 
handsome, bright red ; moderately firm ; good 
to very good ; early. 
Clyde. Perfect. Large, conical ; light scar- 
let; firm; good quality, enormously productive. 
Crescent. Imperfect. Medium ; bright red ; 
good flavor. An abundant producer when 
planted near “perfect” varieties. 
Excelsior. Perfect. New. Bright red ; ex- 
cellent quality, fine rich flavor ; not as large 
as Lady Thompson but earlier. Bears pro- 
fusely. One of the most promising varieties. 
Gandy. Perfect. One of the best flavored 
of late varieties ; large and firm ; bright 
crimson ; very uniform in size and shape. 
Haverland. Imperfect. Large; long and 
handsome ; very productive. Fair quality. 
Hoffman. Perfect. Early ; very dark red ; 
firm ; a heavy yielder ; good flavor. A valu- 
able market sort of fine appearance. 
Jessie. Perfect. Early, ripening just after 
Hoffman ; medium in size ; a great producer. 
Lady Thompson. Perfect. Large, round ; 
light scarlet ; firm ; sweet and of best quality; 
early ; bears well. 
Sharpless. Perfect. Large to very large ; 
of irregular shape ; deep red ; sweet and fine 
flavor ; excellent bearer. 
Tennessee Prolific. Perfect. Medium to 
large, flattened ; bright red ; fine flavor ; 
productive. 
Warfield. Imperfect. Medium ; very dark 
red ; firm and solid through and through. 
An excellent berry of delicious flavor. 
The Chattanooga Strawberry growers consider Lady Thompson one of the very best money- 
makers. The Excelsior is well liked where it has been fruited in the South. Reports from Grand 
Junction, Tenn., are very favorable to it. At that point in ’99 Lady Thompson and Clyde gave 
best results in a very dry season. 
