The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1884-02-06
CRANBERRY CULTURE.
: r.,;eties Best Adapted to this
nlmate and Their Mode of
Culture

Lac was delivered before the Bates
county Horticultural Society, at Its
peenng in this city, last Saturday,
h Judge chas. l. Robards
M. President ladies and gentle
/ 1.ren ofkhc Bates County Horfi-
1sltaral Soiiety:
The only Inspiration one ought to
have to write on SO inviting sub
/ .et as the one you have given me, is
| The delightful remembrance of the
strawberries and cream OF last Nav
| and June.
The truth seems to have been
clearly proven that he who desires
fresh strawberrics has only to plant
and give reasonable cultivation to
have the assurance of an abundant
rop the following season. Varie-
lies. soil and situation however. have
% much to 90 with growth, vigor
| and productlveness of plants that it
nav be considered important that
rerv one who has any experience
with different sorts give the result OF
! his observations by which those who
desire to plant may be profited.
The questions that every one wish
| .s answered are, what are the most
productive and hardy kinds both for
home use and for market. The
same facts hold good with the straw
berry that apply to the cereals and
vegetables of our land.
While there are many varieties that
arc peculiarly adapted to certain 10
caIiies there are "a few kinds OF all
general crops that thrive sufficiently
we'll everywhere to do away with all
necessity for experement.
The Mediterranean wheat and the
Early Rose potato, have established
areputation for a certainty OF profit
able Weld in all lati.udcs and soils
wherever such crops can be produc-
ed to entitle them to preference.
But as an essay written at the re-
quest of a Horticultural Society,
ought to be plain. practical and as
far as possible instructive, it will be
my duty to give concise statement
Of facts relative to my experience in
regard to points of excellence claim
ed for the varieties to which [ give
preference over all others tested and
nv reasons for SO doing. For in
stance while every one NAV not sue
ceed with the Monarch of the West
or Great American there have been
discovered and sufficiently tested a
few valuable sorts that seem as de-
termined to grow and produce q crop
Of fruit as the most noXIouS weed or
rampant grapes, From every por-
ton of the land wherever strawber-
ries have been grown. from Maine to
Georgia, comes the united testimony
OF hundreds of amateurs and fruit
growers to the tact that the Crescent
the Cumberland Triumph.
the Sharpless and the Mt. Vernon
strawberries possess more desired
requisites than any tour other varie-
hes yet discovered.
improvements are constantly I've
ing sought. however and no doubt
Will be made IN some respects on all
'hese varieties. Having grown and
'ruited, bes,LeS those mentioned
above. the Bidwc.i. Manchester,
capt. Jack, Windsor Chief. Miners
Great, Prolific Il entucky. Warren.
tendicott. President Wilder and a few
sthers that have not vet fruited with
ne. | concluded 70 select the tour
'arieties to which ! give preference.
Tor the reasons that from them with
he same treatment. In the same sea
'ol and on the same soil | received
ne greatest vigo: at plants and the
largest weld of frui, the first season
alter planting.
Many of the varieties above men
noned indeed showed but very l:ttlt
INIT the first season, while the Cres
cent Seeding. Cumberland Triumph
and Mt. Vernon in particular hav'
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