Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-09-16
Culture of the Strawberry.

Some years since, Mr.. Peabody, of
Georgia, one of the editors of he;Soibof
the ,SouM, cultivated the strawberry quite
extensively, and did undoubtedly meet
with great success. He says:
1t is fact too notorious now for any
oneSone nf resp ability to dare. to- dis
pute, that we do cultivate acres of straw
berries without animal manure of any
kind; and that we have constant sue.
ceSsion of fruit from March until Septem-
Der; and this, too, in this hot climate ''of'
the Sorth:e -
Tie Secret.-The whole secretof straw:
berry culture is to cultivate for fruit, and
not for vine or blossom. Much depends
uprn the locality. Of. the strawberry bed.
No tree or plant should be near it; the
strawberry loves shade, bat not II shade
that sacks its very life blood out. The
lowest part of the garden, The bauA OF
some little stream of water, are proper
localities, and where it is possible select
new land. As TO the soil, our beds are
,,l rs poor lands a. Gopher or Saiman-
def ever built into pyramids, and we be.
lieyr it is pretty ge ,eraily conceded now,
within y circc.af ~ few hundred miles,
that we do occasionally have a strawber-
ry. We do not know. 6ut,a sitter land
may suit them better, but ours does well
enough, and we ale not disposed TO act
like that foolish man who s s was well,
wished to be better, ;no5N physics and
dieI." The strawberry may be. 5r:ms-
planted nYnme from September until
MARCIA Tie plant, properly taken mp, is
very tenacious Of, life, and. bears trans.
PLANTING WE'LL. - :, {. - =. -
Directions, elc-The ground designed
for The strawberry bed should De- ple@ed.
or spaded as deep as tools can wel!smake
it. .ffsshe .soilisp tight and thin, q thick
coat If swamp muck or partially decom-
passed leayes,. with sleaehed or unleached
ashes, wiflsbs ines tosturn under. After
the ground is pulverized and leveled,
mark it off into rows two feetapart. Now
plant eight rows of Hovey's Seeding and
one of the Early Scarlet, two feet apart
in tie rows, and so continue until the bed
is finished. We speak particularly of
these two varieties, aud We should con.
slider it, labor lost to cultivate O. variety
which only gives fruit three or four weeks
!nthe season. And We haze never found
q finer fruit, in point of size and flavor,
than the Hoveys and none finer favored
than. she Early Scarlet. Care. should be
taken that The plants arc put into the
ground just as they came out, Of it,; that
is,,&ith all their 1aterals spreading, and
not sll gathered together and crammed,
intosslittle hole. Nov, if the object be
to get large number of plants for anoth,
er Year, Keep them we'll worked with the
hoe, sud lesrthe runners take root. Fhe
whole ground wilt be full by fall. 'Butif
fruit be the object, cover the whole Sur
face Of the ground with partially decom-
posed leaves orsstraw, and as the first
runners begin to show themselves, take
them of. Care. .p,ust be used in taking
of the runners ;Sthey shoula be cut. and
mob pulled of, as careless servants will
lni1snlaniys plants. = shesT the sasineshas
oncescenHmenced fru' iIg,-it will<shows
hut little disposition to- run. as lis whole
ell;1TF4t is 70 make the frnit-particnlarlyt
if tbes vine is not over stimulated 1t is
nayenoughShas the strawberry bed is in
a moist, cool location; for if the ground
is moist, the plants want water 10 set. 1t
is asserted by some English cultivators
that the plant should not have water when
in afonfi, it swashestheSpollen away.
This may do f;ar6Englend, but It does not
dphcre. We care not how much water
they haze when in bloom. if the season
proves dry,,we give them water to set
the fruit by artificial rain; and unless it
rains twice week, we give artificial rain
to swell the fruit, and then We give arti-
iiciaI rain to form the next fruit stems
amdsso on. Fear not to give too much
water; water morning and evening. If.
Grass; and weeds show themselves, use the
hoe freely. After it is no longer AN ob.
iect to gather fruit, let the vines run and
mat together. In the winter, go through
with the hoe, thinning ont to twelve or
eighteen inches, leaving the cutrp vines
to decay where they were. cut; then COY
cr the whole bed withleaves, straw, swamp
muck, &c. bnt use no animal manure
Let tie proportions of male and female
plants re,gain the same as when first
planted. q
Let the cultivatcr remember the fouIs
great requisites for profitable strawber-
yy bed: Proper location, vegetable ma
nures, shade to the ground, and water,
acater, water.