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Have you a Butterfly Buah, Deutzia, Hydrangea, 
Piety of these berries. Except in a few isolat¬ 
ed localities where on account of elevation 
and local conditions, the environments are 
favorable, the Progressive is the only variety 
that seems to do anything south of the Mason 
and Dixon line. The Progressive is the earli¬ 
est strawberry to ripen in the spring that I 
have ever fruited and is therefore of some 
ralue In this respect, but after the second 
picking, the berries are so small that no one 
will buy them. 
The Minnesota No. 1017, a new variety, has 
fruited with us the past fall for the first time 
and gives great promise as a distinctive fall 
fruiter. It produces more berries to the same 
ipace of row than any variety we fruited the 
past season. I have not tested it for its 
spring fruiting qualities. 
All plants of these varieties which are in¬ 
tended for fall fruiting mainly, should be set 
very early in the spring on very rich, well 
cultivated soil and forced to a big growth by 
July let, then if allowed to fruit, will bear 
large crops for the balance of the growing 
leason. 
The most popular fall bearing strawberry 
and the one grown most largely for market, 
is the Superb. While the Superb will, under 
right conditions produce an enormous crop ia 
the fall, it is as a dual purpose variety that 
It has the greatest value. If the Superb was 
grown for the spring crop alone, It is doubt¬ 
ful If there is any other variety now before 
the public which will bring to the grower so 
much clean money to the acre. If the runners 
are kept clipped as they start, or if some are 
allowed to root and afterwards severed from 
the parent plant, the Superb plants will pro¬ 
duce a good crop of the finest colored fruits 
throughout the autumn of the first year; and 
no matter how large the fall crop, it does 
not seem to In the least affect the chances 
for the spring crop. The June crop of Su¬ 
perb surpasses most everything we have ever 
teen in quantity. The Superb plant Is usu¬ 
ally a vigorous runner maker during the first 
year and if these are allowed to root, and 
form a wide, matted row, the berries, while 
large and fine In appearance, will not be pro¬ 
duced in great numbers except on a few 
plants, which for some reason or other, fall 
to make runners. 
I have noticed that all varieties of fall 
bearing strawberries do not produce much 
fruit on plants which make an excessive num¬ 
ber of runners the first year they are set out. 
The plants of the Superb are the healthiest of 
all varieties of this new race of strawberries. 
They are abundantly able to produce the 
three crops of fruit in two years if well tend¬ 
ed. It la with regret that I have to admit 
that the Superb lacks real character to Its 
flavor, although we consider it better flav¬ 
ored than Productive or Progressive. 
The variety known as “Autumn” will pro¬ 
duce quite a crop of fruit in the fall of the 
first year under certain conditions, but ft Is 
as the parent of other varieties, and as a 
spring fruiter, that the Autumn is most dis¬ 
tinguished. The spring crop is enormous and 
while the berries are not large, they are pro¬ 
duced In such quantities and they are so firm, 
deep red and fine for canning, that many 
people call for them. The berries can be eas¬ 
ily picked and leave the hull on the vines. 
The Productive, like Autumn, Is a pistillate 
and valuable only as a spring fruiter. It 
produces many berries in the fall, but they 
are small, unattractive and too light in color 
to be valuable for market. The spring crop 
however is simply beyond comprehension in 
enormous jield, but the flavor is lacking and 
they do not create a demand for more straw¬ 
berries. The Productive, like other pistillate 
strawberries Is unaffected by spring frosts 
and will often bear a most profitable crop 
when other kinds of spring fruiting straw¬ 
berries are a failure. Americus Is valuable 
as a spring fruiter as well as a fall fruiter 
because of its fine appearance and wonderful 
flavor. If you are looking for a strawberry 
that will surpass everything else In flavor, the 
Americus is the variety to grow. The Pro¬ 
gressive Is valuable as a spring fruiter only to 
furnish the first berries of the season. The 
spring crop Is better in flavor with us than 
the fall crop. 
The growing of these berries for the fall 
crop only, is a high class horticultural pursuit 
and offers great opportunities to the careful 
painstaking grower. Under right conditions, 
with the ideal soil and the proper variety to 
fit that soil, I believe as many dollars can be 
secured from an acre of fall bearing straw¬ 
berries as from most any other high class 
crop that can he grown out door. 
The average strawberry grower will doubt¬ 
less do best to confine himself to the practice 
of growing them for the dual purpose of fall 
and spring fruiting. If the plants are set out 
and cared for with the idea of producing the 
spring crop only, there will be a lot of berries 
produced in the fall and these can be secured 
without much effort. When the plants pro¬ 
duce in the fall, it does not seem to in the 
least affect them for fruiting the following 
spring. Whatever fruit ia secured in the fall 
Is so much clear gain and in most cases it 
will be quite considerable even if the runners 
are all allowed to grow. 
It has been mentioned that fall bearing 
strawberries are more productive than other 
kinds. This is true. They blossom more and 
therefore produce more, even in the regular 
spring season, than other varieties, but of 
course must be well fertilized and cared for. 
It would seem that they are so inclined to run 
to fruit that they are not able to produce in 
the regular season all the fruit they would 
like, so “boll over” and produce the fall crop. 
Inclining to fruit as they do more than to 
foliage, they blossom and produce ripe fruit 
in the spring In advance of other varieties of 
strawberries. By proper manipulation of the 
blossoms, one can have strawberries any day 
from the time they ripen in early summer 
until the coldest freezing weather of late fall. 
One valuable point with fall bearing straw- 
