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Fall Bearing Strawberries are Frost Proof and Drought 
and sowed the seeds in 
window frames in Febru¬ 
ary, 1905. In August of 
that same year, he picked 
ripe berries from some of 
these seedlings. Two of 
the seedlings afterwards 
were named Francis anr| 
Amerieus. Other crosses 
were made by Mr. Rockhill 
with more or less success. 
The one thing that dis¬ 
tinguishes fall or ever- 
bearing strawberries from 
other kinds is that they 
blossom continuously every 
month from May until win¬ 
ter. You cut off the first 
crop of blossoms that ap¬ 
pear in May and soon 
another crop will appear 
and this process will be 
kept up so long as growing 
weather continues. It 
stands to reason that If 
plants blossom, they will 
bear fruit and so we would 
naturally get fruit on these 
plants most every month 
from June until winter. By 
cutting the blossoms for a 
time say until the first of July or first of 
August, we conserve the energies of the 
plants and they bear a large crop all- at 
once and continue to bear a fair crop until 
cut down by hard freezing weather. It 
usually tak^s about four weeks to get fruit 
after thq; b.tyssom falls. If the plants are 
set real e&'rly in very rich soil, it will do to 
stop picking the blossoms July 1st and you 
will get a good crop of fruit in August 
and September, and a small quantity 
in October. If the plants are not set until 
well along in May, it is better to pick the 
blossoms until August 1st, then you will get 
large quantities of fruit in September and 
October. The fruit is better and sells better 
in August and September 
than later and this is one 
reason why we advise 
early setting and allowing 
the plants to fruit in 
August. It should not be 
necessary for me to state 
that common summer 
bearing varieties of straw¬ 
berries do not blossom 
again after the first crop 
of blossoms is cut off in 
May. 
The fall bearing straw¬ 
berry not only bears a good 
crop of fruit in the fall of 
the first year that the plants 
are set out, but it also 
bears a good spring crop 
the second year, like com¬ 
mon kinds of strawberries, 
and in addition to this, it 
also bears a good crop of 
fruit in the fall of the sec¬ 
ond year. Thus you get 
with these varieties, three 
crops of fruit in the same 
space of time that it re¬ 
quires to get but one crop 
of fruit from the common 
varieties. All that is neces¬ 
sary to attain these ends is to set out genu¬ 
ine fall bearing kinds and give them con¬ 
tinuous clean culture and plenty of fer¬ 
tilizer, for it stands to reason that they 
>von’t respond in this way if neglected in 
culture or manuring. We keep the cultiva¬ 
tors and hoes going the same the second 
year as though it were a new set bed. 
The fall bearing varieties being full of 
blossom material all the time, send out their 
blossoms earlier in the spring than other 
kinds and we get fruit from them earlier in 
the spring than from other kinds. The past 
June, we had berries, good pickings from the 
Progressive a week ahead of any other kinds 
Strawberries in Corn Cutting Time. 
