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Strawberries 
Tt is impossible in a cata¬ 
logue to give much informa¬ 
tion about the culture of ber¬ 
ries, but my book on straw¬ 
berry culture (price 25c) will 
give full and explicit direc¬ 
tions. Strawberry plants pro¬ 
duce 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 sta¬ 
mens. Stamens are the male organs and pistils 
the female organs of the blooms. Thus a berry 
that has stamens is often called a “staminate” or 
perfect flowered, and one that lacks stamens but 
has pistils is called a “pistillate” or imperfect 
flowered variety. Perfect flowered varieties can 
be planted alone and will bear good crops of ber¬ 
ries, but pistillates or imperfect flowered varieties 
will not bear good berries when planted alone. They must have the compan¬ 
ionship of a staminate or perfect flowered variety in order to produce perfect 
fruit. For practical results 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 result. 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 quality and quantity of fruit pro¬ 
duced from these varieties will be remarkable. Varieties in this catalogue 
marked “per” are perfect in flower, and those marked “imp” are imperfect 
in flower. 
Brief Cultural Directions 
There is no farm crop more profitable than strawberries, no fruit more at¬ 
tractive 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 one acre of strawber¬ 
ries 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 strawberry 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. 
