Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1858-01-29
IEEIgVIFVRaI AND DgNESTTG.
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,Yla4 BEDS. sSfo
Two points must be understood to
groH. the best strswbstries 81 tlasf
TIC, soil must be deep, and cd. that Il
must be rich. If,yod lock at the 8 leaves
ofa strawberry. aud because the leaves
are not very large, presume that the roofs
will extend. but little depth, You are
grsatty mistaken. I have see1 s6e roots
riohf Deep soits and tthossa plants bore a
crop Eve tines ss large, and twice as
haatsdns and good, as The common pros
duct OF q soil 9aIy one foot 1dsep4nM
,And this !. reminds me OF "a capital inr
stauce- eta strotaberry delusioa. aud which,
moseef our readers ubtlssg know some.
thing. about but yh ich many yeyen(yettdo
not, perhaps. fully understand. Il mean
the history Of the =. Washington Alpine
SEga b6FTS.o .9ShishE Mr. SSt6ti dart 1sok
Western New YSSk. ADVERTISED, land sold
: greatImsny JdOllarsH worth of, some a
ORC yearsog go. Mr.. .Stoddart, 1 believey
was quite honest in the TRANSACTION; and
yet the whole public were completely de-.
d-bY the Washington Alpine. -;
which 9as nothing but the DID Alpine Eor,
Monthly Slragberry- The long and
short 81 the matter vas. that MI, Stod.
dart had a corner Of his garden Which
Was made ground "a rich. deep. moist
soiI. e think it had been. ian old bog, or
bit OF aliuvial, afterwards filled up) not
less than 8or 10 feet deep. MIR. Stoddart
mad raised some seeding Alpine (Which
SO far Es l know, always comes from the
seed 3 he had by lucky chance, planted
p them IN the corner Of hiss garden, where
the soil " as SO Unusually rich and deep.
ThEfs theyy grew SO finely. and Bore such
enormous- crops, that his neigh6ors could
scarcely crediEtheir senses. The story OF
the miraculous crop gotihto0 The papers,
People gams 10 see, with their own eyes.
In short. they bought and carried away
the Washington Alpine" at extrayagant
prices, with the full conviction that "see
log is believing and that such straw
berries were never before gr, WI. gazed
90 or tasted. Well. great was their sur.
prise 10 find. GU planting and cultiyating
the :" Hashingtou Alpines," that there
was nothing auew or wonderful about
them; and that. IN = fact, they. all, dwin.
died down TO the old-fashioned Alpine
Strawberry. Mr.. S., naturally enough,
now has as many hard names bestowed
on him for the tancied deception as he
had before had hard dollars for really
great crops. And yet MIR. Stoddart sold
his plants in good faith and was probably
as much deluded as the buyers. The
whole secret of his unhesrd Of crops, and
the large size fruit. lay in the, depth and
richness of the soil and as, none Of his
customers had, like him. rich ten feet
mould to grow giants in, they had no
Washington Alpinss.'''. 4 ~ 70 .....
The moral your readers are to
draw out Of this depression is, that they
cSunus well make their soil too deep for
the straw erry. Perhaps they cannot af-
ford to make il three feet deep, which is
the right depth for an extra fine crop /;
bat. at all events, they can make it two
deep. And now, word as 10 manuring
it. ....... ..i.
II is all very we'll to talk about COM
poats and "Teli-rutted manure" The
rssl truth lie, that in our careless country,
not one gardener in hundred has such
things ready for use at the moment he
wants to prepare his strawberry patch.
What people have at hand from one end
Of the country to the other. is fresh sta,
BILE or baru-yard manure and the ques.
ton is, how to use that to the best ad-
vantage, ... .-..
The true way to do this, is to throw
out the soil where your beds are to be
made. two feet deep, Fillup The bottom
sight ircbes'or afoot deep. with fresh sta
BILE manure. mixed with the litter, tread
ing it down firmly. Then cover this with
tWo-thirds Of the soil thrown out, reject.
Jog the worst part OF it. This will raise
the bed four inches above the surface
aud as it will settle about four inches, il
will be about level when it is settled.
Thls ls all the preparation which give
my soil, and it is all that any soil of fair
qtality needs only that would much
prefer to have it three feet deep. than two
feet, and to have Is inches of stable ma.
nure and litter at the bottom than eight
though the latter brings heavy crops in q
> good soil.
You may put out your plants in Au.
gust (September in Ohio. or April. The
only difference is that if planted in Au.
gust. you may lose half of them by the
heat and rdrouth, unless it is a rainy sea.
son while in April. you are certain moi
70 lose single plant. unless it is unsound
when you transplant it. 80. ......, ~. ...
Al, To my mind there is no way of grow
ing strawberries halt SO complete. as il
bsda three and half feet wide, with
three rows in each-the plants in the row.
kept clipped of their runners. and The
ground between the rows nicely covered
With straw all the year round. The
largest and the finest fruit is obtained il
this way. and the beds themselves will
last many years while if allow ed to GOV.
er the bed, y GU can. at the most, expect
only two crops. and. general, the fruit is