Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-04-24
Strawberry Culture.

We have learned our Strawberry cuhure
from long experience, aud to our experi-
ments we considered the climate md the
nature Of the plant We found mammoth
fruit, and our object was to dwarf the vino.
without affecting the size or quality of fruit,
for we had learned that all plants require
different kinds of food in perlecting their
stems, stalks and fruit. We give the Straw
berry all it wants to perfect its fruit, and
retain the luxuriant habit of the vine, by n
cold aud simple diet, THUS enabling ii TO
brave the heat of our Summer suns, and to
help the fruit stalks, instead of putting all
lis capital on its back in The way of clothing.
We will not pretend to say that all Straw
berry plants eau be cultivated in this way
we believe they must go through thorough
accimation, aud he gradually disciplined to
their humble fare. All fruit cultivnturs are
aware that an over luxuriant tree seldom
produces much fruit; hence root pruning
has been resoried to, TO check the too rnpid
growth of wood, and it invariably forms
fruit where none or little grew before. II is
upon this principle that we cultivate tho
Strawberry.
The soil that seems best suited to the
growth of the fruit is a sandy loam. The
natural location of the bed has much TO do
with its productivencss AS moisture is Que
of the greatest elements in perlectng the
fruit the bed should he as near stream of
water us possible. New land is preferable
to od--wo care not how rich the olh may
he, or how poor the new ~ y be. Before
planting il should he mellowed deeply
The vines may he planted any time from
September To April, 1--WE have moved them
in iull irtit.) We plant six or eight rows of
lloyeys Seeding, which is pisiillate, to one
of the Large Early Scarlet, which is u stan-
innte or hennthrodite, both bloom and fruit
together; the rows two feet apart aud
tie vines some eighteen inches apart in the
row.
Strawberry vines will live planted almost
any way, but if fruit he an object the first
season, the roots should be put ia the ground
Just as they were taken from il. The vines
will make from runners the first season,
enough TO stock the ground. In the fall, go
over the ground with the hoe and thin out
to some ten or twelve inches, leaving the
vines to decay where cut up; after this is
done, cover the whole ground with decom-
posing leaves, scrApngs of forest earth, fine
mud from bitches, aud any vegetable matter
that will decompose soon. Before the plants
bloom, top dress them with ashes, leached
or unleached. Keep the whole surface of
the ground covered with leaves, which shades
aud coOlS the ground, and keeps the fruit
clean. As the fruit stalks appear, should the
weather prove dry, give them water; rs soon
MS the fruit sets, should the weather prove
dry, give them water; rs the fruit ripGns,
should the weather prove dry, give them
water. By this treatment, another fruit stalk
will have started, before the first il done,
aud so on through the season. The vines
will make few or no runners, during the fruit
ing season. Keep down the gruss and weeds
with n hoe. We have tried The plow, but il
let ia too much sunlight Better keep the
grass smOihered with leaves. Let those who
wish Strawberries fire tCeekS in the year,
trench in two feet of stable manlIre but
those who like them six or eight months,
exclude all uanures but Nature, and turn
green leaves into nice and luscious fruit
This can be done. This we do, and our
readers that choose, eau do the same. We
doubt not there is plenty Of land through the
country, ms poor ns ours. When our old
friend of the New York PiotU walked through
our beds last March, he exclaimed, swell,
well, this is the first of Strawberry fruit
ever saw without vines" And il was literal
ly true the ground was covered with fruit,
with scarcely yet an appearance of leaf
We are now experimenting with Burr's
New Pine aud Ross Phoenix, both of which
bore the last senson's drought remarkably
Well. Should they bear u comparison with
Ilovey's Seeding, j., and the public shall
learn of il.
The Soil Of the South.