Most Dependable of Ail the Fall Bearing Strawberries. 
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after quite heavy frosts. In many sections up in the mountains of Colorado 
and other places, it has been practically impossible to grow strawberries on 
account of late spring frosts. With the everbearing varieties, it will now be 
possible to grow them at a profit. The frosts picked the blossoms for us last 
spring and we did very little cutting of blooms. We found that where the 
blossoms were not removed at all and the plants allowed to bear a full crop in 
the spring, that they did nearly as well with the fall crop as wdien they were 
disbudded in May. This was undoubtedly due to the unusual season. It was 
very dry and the plants remained free of fungous diseases. We find that when 
plants are w'eakened by heavy fruiting, that they yield to disease more readily 
and do not bear so well in the fall. It is better to cut the first blossoms of 
Francis, Americus and Progressive anyway. If you allow them to fruit from 
the first bloom, the berries will be so numerous that they will not be large 
enough to compete with other kinds in the markets. The Superb, Productive 
and Iowa may be allowed to fruit from the first blossoms and the berries will 
be of good marketable size. These kinds are inclined to bear good crops of 
berries in June but do not bear as large crops as Americus, Francis and Progres¬ 
sive in the fall. They do their best when kept in narrow rows or hills, but never 
quite equal Francis, Americus and Progressive for fall fruiting, no matter how' 
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you treat them. There seems to be two types of the fall bearing kinds, the one 
kind that should be used almost exclusively for fall bearing and the other kind 
which can be used for both spring and fall bearing. To show how the Produc¬ 
tive will yield in spring, we might give our ^experience with it this past season 
and it has done equally well every year that we have had it. We had rows that 
had been dug close so that there was nothing left but the parent plant, yet these 
rows, 350 feet long, picked as high as 60 quarts of berries in June at a single 
picking. In September these same rows picked as high as 16 quarts to the row 
at one picking. The Superb and Iowa will do fully as well in June, but they will 
not do quite as well in September. One thing that I learned the past season 
was that we can get as many or more berries from a narrow row of plants as 
we can from a wide row and they 'will be superior in color, size and flavor. We 
had rows of Superb four feet wide and other rows dug down so that there was 
only the mother plant left. The narrow rows would pick 12 to 16 quarts at a 
picking, while the wide rows would go about 8 quarts to the picking. In addi¬ 
tion to this, the berries from the narrow rows would be large, smooth and 
