Proven Berry Plants r r KNOTT’S BERRY PLACE / < Trees and Vines 
Strawberries for Profit 
Part of a forty acre planting- of Xlondyke Strawberries near Buena Park, Calif. 
Owing to our mild climate and long 
fruiting season, strawberry plants, if re¬ 
produced year after year, in California, 
rapidly lose their vitality. Until late 
years we have shipped our strawberry 
plants from the east or north and plant¬ 
ed them here. We kept all blossoms 
picked off and allowed them to make 
plants the first season, and these plants, 
only one season removed from a cold 
climate, were the plants that we sold. 
This careful practice has produced many 
successful patches. During the past few 
seasons we have been having most of 
our strawberry plants grown for us in 
Oklahoma by an experienced nurseryman 
who had worked several years in our 
nurseries here. Due to the drouth in the 
Middle West this past summer our east¬ 
ern strawberry plants are a total loss. 
Under the circumstances we are very 
fortunate in having a few hundred thou¬ 
sand plants growing here in our trial 
grounds, all from new stock brought 
from the east last year. We have already 
contracted for a large number of Klon¬ 
dyke plants in Maryland. Strawberry 
plants were either completely ruined or 
very badly damaged all through the Mid¬ 
dle West, and this is the section that 
grows most of the strawberry plants for 
the entire United States. 
There are two kinds of strawberry 
plants. The first is plants grown for 
plants alone from a new planting, the 
blossoms and berries having all been 
kept off. It costs money to grow this 
kind of plants, but the results you get 
will warrant the cost. The other kind 
of plants are surplus plants taken from 
a fruiting field and many growers will 
give you these for nothing if you dig 
them and they will prove very expensive 
plants at that price. Whether you buy 
plants from us or not be sure and only 
set plants that were grown for plants 
alone. 
There are several methods of setting 
out strawberry plants, each the best 
under certain conditions. The method 
most often used by the larger commer¬ 
cial growers is to set the plants three 
feet apart each way, in February or 
March, and keep the blossoms picked off, 
allowing the plants to make runners the 
first summer to fill out the rows. This 
method requires only 5000 plants per 
acre, but you get no fruit the first 
summer. 
In smaller plantings, especially if the 
grower wishes berries the first season, 
the plants are set one foot apart in 
either single or double rows and the 
runners are kept picked off. If this 
method is used the plants may be set 
out any time from October until April. 
The earlier planting producing the 
larger crops the first year. This method 
requires from seventeen to thirty thou¬ 
sand plants per acre, the exact number 
depending on how far apart the rows are 
spaced. 
In most cases if the land is very 
sandy and not very retentive of mois¬ 
ture, or if there is considerable grade 
to the rows, the plants should be set 
out on the flat, or level with the ground 
without any ridges. If the land is very 
flat so that the water does not run free¬ 
ly in very small rows, or if it is heavy 
or very retentive of moisture, then the 
plants should be set on small ridges. If 
ridges are used they are usually made 
wide enough on top to accommodate two 
rows about a foot apart, one near each 
edge of the ridge. 
Do not manure strawberry land before 
setting the plants. You can fertilize 
after the plants are growing well, in the 
irrigation furrow between the rows if 
you wish. 
Do not plant strawberries on alkali 
land. They are very susceptible to al¬ 
kali and will do no good on land that is 
alkaline, although it may grow some 
other crops successfully. And only plant 
strawberries where there is an abundant 
supply of water which may be had often. 
Prices —All prices quoted for straw¬ 
berry plants are prepaid. Write for prices 
f.o.b. here and for quantity prices. It is 
very plain now that there will be a de¬ 
cided shortage of good plants of several 
varieties of strawberries, on account of 
the drouth. To be sure of geting what 
you want it will be safer this season to 
order early and have the plants reserved 
until you are ready rather than depend¬ 
ing on being able to get the plants when 
you are ready in the spring. Also this 
season in ordering strawberries it would 
be a good plan to mention a second 
choice in case we are sold out of the va¬ 
riety you wish. 
SEE CULTURAL DIRECTIONS, PAGES 20-21-22-23 
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