Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-14
STRAWRERRY CULTURE.

Our Danville correspondent sends US the
following interesting letter on the culture
of this succulent fruit. We hope to hear
from him often, and when he succeeds in
reaching the Presidency, we shall have a
branch of the UNION AND AMERICAN es-
tsblished at Washington for his special
accommodation. We can assure him of
one thing, that if all his articles are
quoted as extensively in this State as the
one on Blue Grass and O chard Grass,
he viii control the entire agricultural in
terests of the S1ste-lhe Agricultural
Editors incluled:
The spring is the BIS, lime to set the
plants, although a sc. may be had after
Shey have finished barring, if a rainy
season is taken advantage of, and they
are taken up with trCwel or a common
paddle, so as to keep a good deal of dirt
about the roots.
The ground should lie prepared by
spading, the top thrown to the bottom.
You should go down the full depth of the
spade, and if 3 rich dressing of rotten
chip manure could be worked in, so much
the better. In setting a bed the plants
should be set not less than IS inches
apart. They should be set by line and
so arranged as for the runs TO make
strsiEht lines diLg0nally across the bed.
Bythas arranging the plants, space enough
is given 60 work each plant by iteslf. Cult
waiting in punches is by all odds the mode
by which to secure the largest yield and
the largest berries. By the ordinary
method of culivation-by permitting the
bed TO fill up with vines-it is almost i'm
possible to hade bed last more than two
seasons. l have known one bed, how
ever, preserved in perfect bearing for ten
years by this prCc0s So soon as the bsry
season was over, the bsd Wss staked off in
10 Two foot spaces, and the alternate spaces
sosded under. l see no reason why =
bed may not be kept clean and in bearing
forever, by this mode of cultivation, and
become enriched at the same time. Of
course the space left the first year viii
be the one 10 be spaded under the second
year. New runners will sufficiently set
the spaded up space. l am intending to
adopt the foregoing mode of culture my
self.
VARIETIES.
IhaVe sounded every note ia the gam
ut, grave notes and all, and find but
two of the fine varieties that will pay in
this region, and they are Wilson's Albany
and DoRner's prolific. The Wilson is
the largest and finest berry of all the va
rleties, and is the best for market aud
preserving purposes. 1t is little more
Acid than some other varieties, and re-
.luires more sugar for table use. The
,Dowrer was produced in southern Ken
lucky. The plant is extremely hardy,
bears finely, and while it will produce no
single berry as large as several varieties,
yet, to take the average product of the
vine, aud they are larger on an average
than any other variety. Ia other wOrds,
the berries are more uniform in size than
any other variety ! am acquainted with.
The JuCunds, TiOmphe de Gand, Ag
riculturist, Austen Seeding, etc, are
fancy varieties, sparse bearers, and SC
tca,der as to winteT-kill. They eau be
ralseG, however, pretty well, by covering
with straw in the winter.
nOlC6O NlaI ny hdSLiy MIltItA Ulue
grass article brings me before the people
of Tennessee for the Presidency. That
article reached here the other day and
created quite talk. My marked fitness
for the position SO struck the sovereigns
otSLittle Britain* that it was with diff
Guilty ] could prevent an instruction &c
our delegates to the 3lst of May conven
ton to have my name presented 70 TIT
State Convention for endorsement. As i
is, my prospects arc SO bright, am dali!
asked for THIS office and that, but 50 ia
have declined to make any plsdge, excep
to have the UNION AND AMERICAN, The or
gan of my administration. {. Z. b.
@Boyle county is known &n over III
State as Little Britain.