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ILLUSTRATED AND DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
strawberries. 
Directions for its Cnltnre. It is supposed that those who are entering into field culture of 
the Strawberry for market purposes without practical experience will hardly depend on the brief 
directions that can be given here; fuller instructions will be freely given upon application. 
The Soil and its Preparation. The ground should be worked eighteen or twenty inches deep 
and be properly enriched as for any garden crop; drainage is necessary in very wet soil. 
Cultivation. For family use, plant fifteen or eighteen inches apart each way, and after a few 
strong plants have set from runners then pinch off all runners as fast as they appear; keep the 
ground free of weeds, and frequently stirred with a hoe or fork. Plants treated in this manner 
will produce more crowns and therefore yield double the amount of well developed fruit than when 
runners are left to grow. 
Covering in Winter. Where the winters are severe it is well to give the ground a light cov. 
ing with coarse straw or litter. This covering should not be placed on until the ground is frozen. 
Fatal errors arc made by putting on too much and too early. If coarse straw is used it may be left 
on until the plants have done fruiting, taking care to open it up around the plants early in the 
spring, so as to give them plenty of sunlight and air. 
The blossoms of those marked with a letter (P) are destitute of stamens and are termed pistil- 
late, and unless a row of a perfect flowering variety is planted at intervals not exceeding every 
third or fourth row, they will produce imperfect fruit, and but little of it; but when properly fer- 
tilized, as a rule, they are more prolific than those with perfect flowers. 
W achusett Thornless. Fruit of medium size, oblong, oval, moderately firm, sweet and good; it ia 
a good keeper, ships well, and valuable as a market berry; hardy and almost free from thorns. 
Wilson’s Junior. The largest and most productive early Blackberry known; produces its fruit in 
immense clusters; ripens evenly; becomes sweet as soon as black; holds its color well after 
being picked, and brings the highest price in the market; needs protection in winter. 
DEWBERRY. 
Locretla Dewberry. Fruit 
very large, luscious 
and handsome; per- 
fectly hardy, a strong 
grower and enorm- 
ously productive; a 
superb and very profi- 
table market fruit; 
the vines should be 
allowed to remain on 
the ground during the 
winter, and staked up 
early in the spring. 
Eucretia Dewberry. 
