Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10

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| TO ADMIT of spreading out the roots of the
| plant, which is a thing highly advanta-
| geous.
If the plants have been shipped from
| distance more or less dead leaves viii be
| found upon them; these should be trimmed
| off The roots will be more or less dry,
and therefore it would be best to puddle
them before setting. pudding means
| having pail of very soft mortar with the
| plants immersed into it up to the leaves. TO
be taken out as they are set in the ground.
| If the plants are fresh from neighboring
| grounds no pudding will be necessary.
| The soil should be firmly pressed around
| the plants when they are set, and care
| should be exercised not to leave them
standing in depression below the general
! level Of the patch. Unless we employ some
/ care in this matter, we are apt to settle
! the hills in our efforts 10 press the soil
/ around the roots Of the plants.
Fall is the best time for putting out
strawberry plants in the South, though in
Texas they might be set out any time dur
! ing the winter, and thence on to the last Of
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put out in September or October they will
! be apt to yield considerable crop of fruit,
| next spring, but if set in the winter or
| spring there would be no fruit, of course.
| for the next season, and the plants for the
| want OF establishment would not be SO well
prepared to Withstand the effects of the
next summers drouths.
10 n HlN hn. t1Gn hnU1s rprNys-
plants as nearly as possible, and by all
means plants grown in the South. Plants
| shipped from the North never do so well
| for Southern culture as plants grown in the
South, even though of the same variety
they are not acclimated
Clean culture of the straw berry is of
! special Importance. Unless the grower has
| fully made up his mind 10 accomplish clean
culture he had best have nothing To do with
strawberries. There must be no weeds or
grass in the patch if one expects success
with the crop. No crop we attempt to grow
can be so rapidly run out by weeds and
grass as can the strawberry But the
patch planted or the hill plan is not hard to
keep clean. If large patch shallow-run-
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| out. up TO within an inch or two of the row
the hoe can be made 10 do the rest. If
small patch, the garden rake and hoe can
! do the work. II is always best TO keep the
surface mellow by shallow workings after
each packing rain. There must be no deep
working at any time.
When the plants are beginning to bloom
a CfT fl,.k Cb b.a he.
| ground. This is to prevent the fruit from
| becoming Splashed with soil in time of
rains. Without such protection the Der
RES would be quite apt to become seriously
damaged. So soon as the fruiting season is
over the mulch should be removed to admit
of culture. In the pine regions pine
straw is the mulch-materiaI most com
monty employed. though almost any kind OF
straw viii answer the purpose-our prairie
grasses cut and spread over the patch
would make tirst-rate mulch.
The best mulch for the plant mot the
berry is a mellOwed surface OF the soil,
hence the recommendation that the fruit
protecting mulch be removed so soon as the
fruitiug season is over.
After the fruiting season the plants will
send out runners to form new plants
These must be promptly removed with
hoe or knife, for if left to themselves they
will soon spoil the Old plantation.
Dr. Ocmler does not pretend 10 state how
long 4 strawberry plantation in the South
will remain profitable without renewal.
DIR. White in his Gardening for the
South says, The same plat of ground
viii remain productive many years" OF
course much would depend upon the atteu-
ton paid the plantation. We think straw
berry plantation would hold good much
longer on d clay soil well managed than on
4 sandy soil. In the coast regions east of
the Mississippi river, where the soil is very
sandy, four years make up the time re-
garded as about the age of a plantation to
prove entirely profitable Over there, after
The fourth crop has been gathered, the
plants are allowed 10 throw out runners
and establish plants for resetting in the
fail. The young plants made by such run
Eels are the plants that must be set for the
new plantaton-no other kind would an
swer
In case Of 4 small plantation merely for
home use. other and better varieties than
either the Wilson'S Albany or the Neunan
might be cultivated, but we don't know
which if any, OF these better varieties
would succeed in Texas, and therefore shall
not attempt any recommendation. The two
varieties named would do well here, we are
sure, and the family having plenty of
either VIII not be apt to much worry over
desire for something better. OF course we
don't recommend these varieties exclu-
sively: find out a better variety that will
succeed. if you can. aud plant it but il You
are in hurry for strawberries it would be
best, We think. TO plant either the Wilson's
Albany or the Neunan TO fill the bill as
well as they can be made to do SO, until
those better and more fancy varieties have
been decided upon.
in years back varieties bearing only pis-
tillate flowers We're more or less planted
The old ''Hovey's seeding" was a variety
of this character. To get fruit from such
varieties it was necessary to plant with
them certain varieties bearing male or
staminate flowers. Varieties of this kind
are now pretty generally discarded-an the
popular varieties OF to-day bear perfect
flowers. and hence call for TO separate