The sun. (Fayetteville, N.C.) 1883-188?, 1885-04-29

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OF this most popular of all mall fruit. It Is
named for Peter Henderson. the fa-
mons yIers2y gardener. 1t is early. VERY
productive and of great size. Its flavor
Is said to be superior 70 that Of anF
strawberry yet discovered. This is OILY the
81 cond season that the plants have been pu9
upon the market.
1t is a disgrace to a farmer not to have 6
6 od strawberry bed. There IS no more
delicious, healthful fruit grown. What
pray. is better or prettier than u saucer Of
ripe, red strawberries: 1t Appeals to every
refined sense in the soul. and is food for the
gods. And a good strawberry short-cake-
don't talk 1t is the end of perfection.
Again, canned, preserved or made into jelly
for winter, in the days when the enyio1s
season takes all our fresh fruits from uS-tO
remind us that we are merely mortais after
all. and subject to nature-still and always
what is better than the strawberry:
The AgriculturiSt says anybody can raise
Strawberries that can ra4sa potatoes. which
is u fact. 1t says: ''There is no reason WHY
the family of every farmer should not have
all the Strawberries they could eat three
times a day all through the season of this
fruit
Tn plants may be set out either in the
spring or fall. April is a good month. The
bed should only be allowed to bear two
years. Then it should be plowed under and
new one started. At present writing, this
delicious fruit is ripe in the south. 1t IS
brought north in refrigerator boxes and cars
and sold at famous prices. The weekly
steamers bring Strawberries from Savannah
to New York in great ice boxes holding 100
to 500 quarts.
THE SOIL.
Ground that is suited for potatoes will do
for the strawberry. As early in the spring
as it is fit to work pillow deeply, from a foot
to IS inches. Three inches of rotten stable
manure should be worked into the soil thor
oughly with harrow or cuitivator to the
depth of 9 inches. If more convenient.
bone dust and wood asIes or leaf mold or
swamp muck may be uset i. Whichever one
of these is employed it should be mixed with
wood ashes. 1 bushel of the ashes to - of the
fertilizer. That is Peter Henderson's direc-
lion. Plant in rows 2l5 Feet apart and a foot
part hi the row. For strong soil and very
l.rge growths, the rows ) feet apart and plants
separate Is inches i'm the row is not too much.
One we'll known strawberry man sets lis
Strawberries in rows foiir feet apart, with 4
space of tLree feet between the plants. He
sets out plants in the spring, and the first
year he sets a hill of early potatoes between
every two strawberry plants. In cultivating
the potatoes he cuts of every blossom and
runner from the Strawberries, until after the
potatoes are dug in July. Then he lets the
runners grow. He gives careful and thor
ough tillage until September with the cul-
tivator. His culture is a constant war on
weeds.
Late in The fail, just before the final freeze
up for winter, cover the ground three inches
deep with straw, sawdust, pine-neetles, OF
something of that kind. This is muiching.
1t prevents the plants from freezing cut. In
Connecticut. growers often mulch the straw
berry bed Will, stalks OF sowed corn, well
grown.
The largest clop of berries will be had the
fist year-a year from the time the berries
ere planted. The strawberry man already
quoted only allows them 10 bear one year
That spring he sets ou5 another bed some
where else. As soon as the crop of fruit is
picked from the old one, he plows up the
ground and sows it in buckwheat, Hungarian
grass or fodder corn. In that way he gets
three crops from the ground in two years.
VARIETIES.
Besides the Henderson, already mentioned,
there are several other choice new kinds that
are quite taking the place OF the old ones,
even the favoTite though sour Wilson. The
Kentucky isa very excellent berry. Itripens
a little later than the rest, and is especially
valuable in prolonging the strawberry sea-
son. Then there is the. Crescent Seeding,
said to be tho perfection of a fruit, the larg-
est p-o11:'lg strawberry Known. 1t is.
perfectly lowered plant. and
viii ~ De planted alongside of some