Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-03-02
WEDNESDAY MORNING,

fount a liner fruil, IN point of size and flavor,
than the Hovcs, and none finer favored Il an
the Early Scarlet. Care ahould be taken that
the plants are put into the ground just as they
came out of it-that is with all their lateral
spreading. and not all gathered together and
crammed into little mole. Now it the OBJ
Ject be TO get large number of plants for
another year, keep them well worked with
the hoe. and let the runners take root. The
whole ground will be full by fall But if fruit
be the object, cover the whole surface of the
ground with partially dccomposed leaves or
straw-and as the first runners begin TO show
themselves take them off. Care must he used
IN taking OFT the runners; they should be cut
and not pulled off, as careless servants " III
ruin many plants. When the vine has once
commenced iruiting, 1t will show but lltte
disposition To run, as its whole effort is 10 make
the fruit--particularly if The vine is not over
stimulated 1t is not enough that the straw.
berry bed is in a moist, cool location--for if
the gron nd is moist, the plants want water TO
set the fruit. and to swell the fruit when set
II Is asserted by some English cultvators thai
tie plant should not have water when in
bloom, il washes the pollen away. This
may do for England but it does not do here.
We care not how much water they have when
IN bloom. II the season proves drv, we give
water to set the fruit Ivy artificial rain; and un
less it rains tw ice week, we give artificial
rain 20 sw ell The fruit. and then we give artih-
cial rain to form the next fruit stems. and so
on. Fear moi to g We too much water--water
morning and evening. If grass and weeds
show themselves, use The hoe freely. After it
is no longer an object to gather fruit, let the
vines run and mattoaether. In the winter go
through with the hoes, thinning out to twelve
TO eighteen inches-leavlng the cut up vines
To decay where they were Cut, and then cover
he whole he'd with leaves, straw, swamp
muck. 81 but use no animal manure Let
The proportions Of male and female plants re.
main the same az when first planted. We
are astonished that IN tue molser, colder lal
tdd's of the North. tles do not have strawber
rles from frost to frost again. The heavy
frost, the sixteenth of April, three wears ago,
took our straw herr. grounds in full fruit. We
made ali early rise the ext morning, and walk
cd out with long countenance, 10 look al the
destruction. Trees, shrubs and plants were
stiff in the cold eunraces of Old Juck Alas
the frn was all gone. We sIollrd into tn
straw berry beds. The leaves crncked undee
our tread like glass We picked a handful or
large, shining, crimson berri 3, solid as mar
bic Fares ell, tIbnght we, to Strawberries
for this season. But in fifteen days the beds
were again crimson nth fruit, anl the market
wagon daily srnpyng the market, which, in
the absence ofall 9th r Irut, brought fine pli-f
ces. This demonstrates. that The straw berry
crop Is the most certain fruit crop cultivated at
the Souh, and taken with Its continuous bear
ing, celtainl. makes It the m 81 valuable.
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