Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-06-28
Farm Notes.
STRAWBERRIES.
How to Raise the Finest and Best. Cali
fornia Varieties.

should be more universally culti-
waited. Every person possessing a
small piece of land should cultivate
a small patch anyway
By cultivating the new and i'm
proved varieties it is possible to
raise a great many berries on small
piece of ground. Many varieties
give one and two crops the same sea-
son and again many do not bear to
amount to anything until they have
had several months growth
Strawberries can be successfully
planted during the fall months and
in early spring. like early spring
planting best.
The best fertilizer is common barn
yard manure; Strawberries are Won
derful feeders and require the richest
of soil.
The first runners produce the fl
nest fruiting plants, therefore, for
propagating purposes, allow the first
runners only to set, pinching off all
others from this first plant when it
starts.
Strawberries are profitable crop,
as high as $2000.0 90 per acre, having
been realized from them.
1t is advisable when setting out
new patch to plant couple of good
varieties of extra early, u couple of
medium season and q couple of va
rieties of extreme lateness, beside
couple of varieties of ever-bearing
Strawberries.
Many varieties can occupy the
same location but few times. After
about five good crops are harvested
they should be plowed up and some
thing else planted where they stood.
The Capt. Jack strawberry seems
to be an exception to this rule, how
ever, and will give good paying
crops for several years. When set
ting out new patch, always plant
the best, as a poor variety requires
the same culture as good one.
Witches Early, is hardy, rapid
grower, and wonderfully prolific;
the fruit is of fair size, a beautiful
glossy red, sweet, and exquisitely
favored, having sort of wild wood
aroma, similar to the wild strawber-
ries.
Australian Everbearing, the earli-
est of all strawberries, is beautiful
glowing crimson in color, sweet and
deliciously favored, and large in size.
In southern California it yields all
the year round. Young plants yield
two good crops the same season they
are set out.
Triomphe DeGand is an old and
well established variety. 1t is a
rapid, vigorous grower, berries large
extremely attractive and beautifully
colored, and possesses rich, sweet
flavor. 1t is enormously productive,
and repays well by good cultivation.
Parker Earle is another great
yielder of handsome berries, which
are a glowing red in color, with yel-
low prominent seeds. The quality is
the best. 1t yields at the rate of
$1,000 quarts to the acre.
Honey Strawberry, Cred Alpine
bears heavy crops, all season long.
Berries are small to medium, with d
spicy aromatic flavor, and a delicious
perfume, an intense glowing red in
color, unrivalled for table use.
Bush Alpines, the red and white
varieties, are characterized by their
entire absence of runners. They are
propagated solely by dividing the
roots or by seeds. They are heavy
fruiters, bearing all season long.
There are two distinct types of this
strawberry; one type is pure red and
the other pure white. These plants
are also extremely valuable for orna-
mental purposes.
Most varieties of Alpines are ever
bearing; the wood Alpines are said
to be the most superior Strawberries
for preserving purposes, of any
known, as they do not lose their ex-
quisite woodland flavor after being
preserved. Few varieties of straw
berries can be canned without losing
their color or original flavor.
1t cannot be denied that what is