The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Strawberries in Florida 
I have been very much interested in the 
past in articles in The R. N.-Y. regard¬ 
ing the raising of strawberries in Florida, 
and the money to be made in them. This 
season I am testing in a small way the 
practicability of marketing a crop in Ver¬ 
mont, coming to Florida and having an¬ 
other crop ready for market in the right 
time for good prices here. Right now we 
are picking ripe fruit from plants that 
grew in our garden at Milton, Yt., and 
some of them bore fruit last season, that 
started a heavy new growth in their new 
home and are loaded with nice berries for 
the second time in the 12 months. This 
may not be practical on a large scale, but 
the Progressive everbearers are certainly 
doing it now, and we intend to follow it 
out along these lines. They are selling 
now at 40c a quart, which is a fair profit 
for the grower. Klondike berries are do¬ 
ing finely and in some instances have 
thrown out runners which have rooted, 
and now are bearing fruit at the same 
time, with the parent plant often being 
cut off from it. We also have early po¬ 
tatoes nearly ready to blossom (Jan. 2) 
which were raised in our Vermont garden 
and planted here in October, and will- 
make a double crop in the 12 months also. 
Oranges and grapefruit are not bringing 
enough to the grower to pay for handling 
this season, and the business seems in a 
way to be overdone, but if a reasonable 
transportation and middleman’s business 
ever appears, the small fruit and vege¬ 
table possibilities here in Florida have 
only commenced. P. S. MORGAN. 
Florida. 
A good many people have planned to 
“farm both ends of the country” by rais¬ 
ing a crop in the North during the Sum¬ 
mer and then growing strawberries dur¬ 
ing the Winter in Florida. In some cases 
this may be done with an orange grove 
if one can get good help during the Sum¬ 
mer, but we have never been able to see 
just how it can be worked out with a 
crop like strawberries. Mr. Hartman 
has told us all about it. There is much 
hard work during the Summer, growing 
the plants for Fall planting. As we un¬ 
derstand, Mr. Morgan grew runner plants 
in Vermont, carried them to Florida, 
probably in early Fall, and planted them 
there. They seem to be doing as Hart¬ 
man’s Southern grown plants have done. 
That might do for small garden culture, 
but would hardly be practical for com¬ 
mercial use. 
Plants for Rough, Shady Spots 
On page 1517. issue of Dec. 15. you 
speak of Japanese spurge as a covering 
for bare spots in lawn. On the west side 
of my house I have a spot upon which I 
have been unable to get anything started. 
It is shaded by three old maples, large, 
over 2*4 ft. each, growing quite closely, 
left from the original forest, and by the 
house, an unusually high 2)4-story house. 
It has southern exposure and gets what 
sun can shine through my own and ad¬ 
jacent trees until about 1 p. m. in the 
Summer. The soil is very poor, porous, 
sand and gravel; old river bottom, geolo¬ 
gists say. Not much soil and many 
"hardheads” (large round cobbles). It 
was so unsightly that I have a nice hedge 
(privet) started between it and the front 
lawn, which does well unless we have a 
long dry spell, because it was covered 
with a soil—dirt from the woods—and 
also a ditch 2% ft. deep in which I start¬ 
ed the privet. Would this Japanese 
spurge cover this? Would it spread 
quickly and get into the fine grass on the 
lawn? If not suitable, what would you 
recommend? j. R. r. 
Bennington, Yt. 
The Japanese spurge, Pachysandra 
terminalis, is an evergreen that makes a 
dense mat of bright green leaves with 
little spikes of whitish flowers in May. 
It succeeds in sun or partial shade, and 
is good for rockeries, so the location you 
suggest would seem congenial if the soil 
is not too poor. It is difficult to add 
humus in such a situation, and we would 
suggest a trial of the spurge, and of 
some other low-growing plants, in an ef¬ 
fort to find something that would grow 
and spread. The tree roots add to the 
dryness and lack of fertility. It may be 
possible to start the little Memorial rose, 
Rosa Wichuraiana, at the top of the 
slope, and if it once gets a start it will 
send its long canes rambling down over 
Hie cobblestones. The common trailing 
myrtle, Vinca minor, will endure an arid 
soil, and accommodates itself to sun or 
shade; this would be an excellent thing 
to start. If there is a spot in the dense 
shade that seems to contain more mois¬ 
ture in the soil, English ivy would be 
desirable. If the spurge will take hold, it 
will gradually cover the ground with a 
dense carpet of neat growth, as it spreads 
by stolons. Hall’s Japan honeysuckle, 
started in a pocket among the stones, 
may grow and spread ; one often sees it 
rambling over a shady arid spot in large 
gardens. The use of these various plants 
would aid in covering the unsightly 
ground. Some of the native woodland 
Asters should be tried also, and the native 
columbine, Aquilegia Canadense. often in¬ 
accurately called wild honeysuckle. We 
do not think the spurge will run over 
into the lawn. 
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