NEw YORK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 513 
often double, prostrate. Blooms and ripens late, picks medium 
easily. Calyx of medium size, not leafy, pale green, flat. Seeds 
raised. Fruit large to medium, dropping to smiall as the season 
advances, blunt, roundish conic, medium dark scarlet, slightly duli. 
Fiesh dark red, firm, agreeably acid, pleasant flavor, good to very 
gcod. Fruit is more attractive early in season than later. 
Worlds Wonder.—( Woodlawn Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y.) 
Imperfect. Originated by R. G. Parsons, Maryland. Plants 
moderately numerous, vigorous, susceptible to attacks of leaf 
blight, very productive. Leaves rather large, medium green; leaf 
stems long, quite thick. Fruit stems short, of average thickness, 
o.ten single, prostrate. Blooms and ripens in midseason. Calyx 
rather large and leafy, sunken, slightly discolored. Seeds slightly 
depressed. [fruit averages above medium in size, blunt wedge, sur- 
face often irregularly furrowed, attractive scarlet. Flesh light 
color, firm, decidedly acid, pleasant flavor, good quality. Although 
the fruit is of good shape and excellent color, the berries run too 
eniill, especially toward the close of the season, pick only mod- 
erately easily and the acid flesh would be undesirable to many 
palates. 
Be WPEinkY pCULLURAT DIRECTIONS. 
Soil. Strawberries do well on a wide range of soils. It is 
usually possible to find some varieties which will thrive on almost 
any soil. The majority of growers prefer a light, warm, moist, 
sandy loam in preference to a cold, heavy clay. The ground should 
be well drained. A southern exposure on a rich, sandy loam favors 
early crops. A northern exposure on a heavier soil retards the 
time of ripening. 
Preparation of ground.— Weedy soils are expensive. Under 
such conditions hoed crops should be grown for one or two years, 
keeping the land free from weeds. Strawberries after clover is 
desirable. Sod soils should be avoided on account of danger of 
injury from work of the larve or grubs of the common May beetles 
which lay their eggs in sod ground. The land may be plowed 
either in fall or spring. Heavy applications of stable manure or 
leguminous cover crops plowed under are beneficial on account of 
their value as plant food and in absorbing and retaining moisture. 
The ordinary preparation of land for corn or oats is not suf- 
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