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AUSTIN NURSERIES 
STRAWBERRIES 
Strawberries will succeed in any soil that is adapted to ordinary farm or gar- 
den crops. Soil should be thoroughly prepared to a good depth, well drained and 
enriched. Vegetable manure (muck, rotten turf, wood soil, ashes, etc.) is the 
best. For field culture set in rows 3 or 3^ feet apart, 15 to 18 inches in rows; 
for garden 15 inches apart each way, leaving pathway every third row. To pro- 
duce fine, large fruit, keep in hills, pinching runners off as soon as they appear. 
Ground should always be kept clean and well cultivated. In winter a covering 
of leav'es, straw or some other kind of litter w'ill protect the plants. Do not cov- 
er until the ground is frozen or so deep as to smother the plants, and remove 
covering before growth starts in spring. Mulching will keep the fruit clean and 
the soil in good condition through the fruiting season. 
Crescent. This is truly the “lazy 
man’s berry,” standing more neglect 
than any other variety, but if well cul- 
tivated on rich land it yields enormous. 
We have gathered from this variety on 
second year’s land, without any man- 
ure and with only ordinary culture two 
hundred and thirty bushels of fruit to 
the acre. 
It commences to ripen as early as any 
and continues in fruit as late. Fruit 
rather large and of a bright scarlet — 
softens soon after ripe if left on the 
vines. If intended for shipping ought 
to be picked daily, when it will carry as 
far as any kind. We always get more 
“clean cash” out of this sort than any 
kind we grow, and relj’ on it entirely 
now, as our market sort, after trying 
over one hundred kinds. As it is an 
imperfect or pistillate variety, it is nec- 
essary to plant every fourth or fifth 
row with a perfect flowering sort, such 
as the Michel or Lady Thompson. 
Michel Medium, regular and globu- 
lar; colors evenly, dark red; qualitj- 
very good; very prolific, and ripens very 
earlj’. In .•iome sections it is the earli- 
est of all varieties. Foliage healthy, 
plants robust. A valuable early varie- 
ty for shipping. 
Lady Thompson. Large, usually round; 
lighfscarlet; colors evenly, and berries 
are of regular size; firm, sweet quality, 
best; as early as the earliest, and a pro- 
lific bearer; plants strong and healthy. 
ORNAMENTAL TREES 
For Street, Avenue. Park, or Cemetery and Lawn. 
Silner-Leaired Maple. Of rapid growth; 
of great value where a rapid growing 
tree is desired; very hardy and easily 
transplanted; a favorite street or park 
tree. 
Sugar Maple. A very popular Ameri- 
can tree, and for its stately form and 
fine foliage, justly ranked among the 
very best, both for lawn and avenue. 
Norway Maple. Foreigti variety, with 
large broad leaves of a deep rich green; 
probably the best Maple in cultivation. 
Ash-Leaved Map'e. Or Box Elder of the 
West — A strong growing, hardy tree of 
spreading habit. Seeds like a Maple 
and foliage like an Ash. 
Lombardy Poplar. Well known for its 
erect, rapid growth and commanding 
form; very desirable in large grounds 
or along roads; indispensable in land- 
scape gardening to break the ordinary 
and monotonous outlines of most other 
trees; if cut back to within eight or ten 
feet of the ground when three or four or 
more inches in diameter, it makes a beau- 
tiful round-headed, symmetrical tree. 
Tulip Poplar. One of the largest and 
most stately native forest trees. The 
trunk is usually perfectly straight and 
cylindrical for a great height. A very 
rapid grower. Bears a profusion of large, 
tulip-shaped flowers. Leaves a large, 
glossy, light green, shaped like a violin. 
Very desirable for street or lawn, and 
where a rapid growth is desired. 
Linden. American Basswood. A fine 
native tree, with large leaves and fra- 
grant flowers. 
Catalpa. Speciosa. A variety origi- 
nating at the West, more upright and 
•symmetrical in its growth than the com- 
mon Catalpa, and blossoms two or three 
weeks earlier. Very valuable for tim- 
ber, fence posts, railroad ties, etc., pos- 
