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hring the best results. The Staiid-Pat is enormously 
productive hut of i)oor color and llavor. 
While fall hearing strawberries recjuire much the 
same care as other strawberries, they differ from them in 
several ways. In the first place, tliey hear fruit in tlie 
fall of the first year that you set them out. I think it 
best to pick off all blossoms up to August Isl the first 
year and then allow the plants to fruit. You will get 
fruit about August 21st and from then on until winter, 
quantities of it. They hear fruit in the spring as well 
as in the fall and if well fertilized and cultivated, they 
will bear a good crop of fruit in the fall, after bearing 
the sprmg crop. Nurserymen will remember the fine 
berries that I showed at the Convention in June. The 
frosts and the fact that plants cannot stand the winters. 
With the fall varieties, if one set of blossoms is killed in 
spring, another will soon appear and they will continue 
to appear all summer until a crop of fruit is produced, 
because the fall bearing strawberry is a continuous 
bloomer. The croj) of fruit comes about three weeks 
after the blossoms. You can set out these varieties in 
the spring and be almost absolutely sure of a crop of 
strawberries some time during the season. The Fran¬ 
cis is quite subject to winterkilling and it is our inten¬ 
tion to practice annual strawberry culture with this var¬ 
iety, We will set the plants in April or fore part of 
May, give them good care and pick the fruit in the fall 
and only run the bed but one year. The next spring we 
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Three children of L. J. Farmer crating Fall Fruiting Strawberries, October ‘20th, 1910. 
plants that bore these berries are now loaded with blos¬ 
soms and green berries for the fall crop, but we have 
kept the cultivators and hoes going and plenty of com¬ 
mercial fertilizer has been applied. 
I believe that fall bearing straw berries w ill eventually 
drive the common kinds out. \ou get the spring crop 
just the same as with other kinds and the fall crop is 
just so much extra. 
One point that I do not w ish to overlook is the value of 
their fruiting in the fall of the same year that you set 
them out. There are many sections that you cannot 
get a crop of strawberries on account of the spring 
w ill take up what plants have w ithered and set them in a 
new place for a new bed, treating them just like any 
one year crop. 
The fall bearing strawberry has the advantage of 
other fruits at the fall fairs and expositions. People 
turn away from the apples, pears, peaclies and plums to 
gaze long at the strawberries produced at such an un¬ 
seemly time. It is much like seeing peaches and plums 
in early spring. Fall bearing strawberry plants are 
great sellers through agents. We filled nearly 2000 or¬ 
ders for one firm last spring, all sold through agents. 
