c. 
Our Fall Bearing Strawberries Produce Three Crops of 
Strawberries 
It is impossible in a catalogue to give much information about the cul¬ 
ture of berries, but my book on strawberry culture (price 50c) will give full 
and explicit directions. Strawberry plants produce two kinds of blossoms 
—the perfect and the imperfect. The perfect blossoms have all the four 
parts of a flower—the stamens, pistils, calyx and corolla. The varieties that 
have imperfect blooms lack stamens. Stamens are the male organs and pis¬ 
tils the female organs of the blooms. Thus a berry that has stamens is 
often called a “staminate” or perfect flow¬ 
ered, and one that lacks stamens but has 
pistils is called a “pistillate” or imperfect 
flowered variety. Perfect flowered varie¬ 
ties can be planted alone and will bear 
good crops of berries, but pistillates or im¬ 
perfect flowered varieties, will not bear 
good berries when planted alone. They 
must have the companionship of a stam¬ 
inate or perfect flowered variety in order 
to produce perfect fruit. For practical re¬ 
sults it is best to have them not over 15 feet 
apart. The two kinds may be mixed in the 
rows, or alternate rows planted of each 
variety. The closer together the two sexes of blossoms are intermingled, 
the better will be the results. If we plant a patch of pure Sample, Warfield 
or Crescents the fruit will be seedy and mostly nubbins, but if Champion is 
planted near Sample, and Dunlap near Warfield and Crescent, the quantity 
and quality of fruit produced from these varieties will be remarkable. Vari¬ 
eties in this catalogue marked “per” arc perfect in flower, and those marked 
“imp" are imperfect in dower. 
Perfect or 
Staminate 
Imperfect or 
Pistillate 
Brief Cultural Directions 
There is no farm crop more profitable than strawberries, no fruit more 
attractive or more sought for in market. You can get as much money from 
one acre of strawberries as is usually produced from ten acres of other 
crops. I have often said I would as lieve have the proceeds from an acre 
of strawberries as from ten cows. There are some crops grown by farmers 
that cannot possibly give one a pleasant feeling when he thinks of what 
they are finally made into. The tobacco grower may make as much money 
as the strawberry grower, but his product does not benefit the consumer, 
and he can think of nothing but the commercial side of the question, while 
the strawberry grower has the satisfaction of knowing that his product is 
going to do good to the consumer. It don’t cost much to start in straw¬ 
berry culture—about as much for an acre of plants as you would pay for an 
average cow. You don’t have to care for strawberries during the winter; 
after they are covered in fall, they take care of themselves. 
Any good soil that will grow either corn or potatoes, will grow straw¬ 
berries. We advise planting after two or three hoed crops have been grown 
on the same land. We advise draining thoroughly, as undrained land is 
unreliable, and wet induces fungous growth, the worst enemy of the straw¬ 
berry. Grubs, the worst insect enemy, are largely eradicated by growing 
two or three crops of corn or potatoes, previous to setting the plants. We 
apply barn manure to the corn crops, thus getting the manure thoroughly 
incorporated with the soil before setting out the plants. We use only con¬ 
centrated or commercial fertilizers on the land after the plants are set, be¬ 
cause we believe barn manures tend to cause fungous growths to flourish to 
the disadvantage of the plants. We prefer, in this locality, to set plants in 
the spring, at the time when most other crops are put into the ground. We 
set in rows from .) to 5 feet apart and the plants from 1 to 2 feet apart in 
the row. A favorite distance is 1x4 feet. Set this distance, an acre will take 
10,000 plants. We set the plants with any tool that will get the roots down 
