The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-19
FRUITS and BERRIES
RECEIVE ATTENTION BY THE
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
A Well Attended and Profitable Meet
Ing Held at the Hospitsble Home
of MIR. and Nrs. J. W, Eggsrt,
In Tuscarawas Township.

by Mrs. Eggert's Grandfather, Christian
Maxhimer, who built one of the first
cabins in the township.
From Christian Maxhimer the farm
descended to Calib Markle father of our
hostess, and from him to its present
owners. The log house built by Chris
tian Maxhimer is still standing. 1t was
reckoned throughout the western part
of the county, as being very grand
house on account of the straightness of
the logs and the great mechanical skill
displayed in laying them up. But not
ancient structure our host and hostess
year ago, built new modern house,
which surrounded with beautiful flowers
such as few members of our sosiety be-
side Mrs. Eggert can grow, an artificial
pond of water, coming from springs as
clear as crystal, streams of living water
running through the spring house, where
pans of rich milk and cream are always
kept cool and clean in covered tanks,
this home is now fit for any king and
queen to inhabit and to this home.
The Stark County Horticultural Society
was invited to hold its meeting and the
the eleventh day of August, although
out of the regular order of monthly
meetings, found a large gathering of
members and friends, who had accepted
the invitation.
Tables were spread under two huge
apple trees, three quarters of a century
old; and around these, at two or three
sittings about one hundred we're fed and
the historic twelve baskets"-of dishes
remained.
At about 1:3O p. III, President Hayhurst
called the meeting to order and took up
the business of the day.
Minutes of previous meeting read and
approved.
c. A. Krider was appointed to collect
membership fees.
B. F. Stump then read the following
essay.
STRAWBERRY CULTURE i
OF all the fruits, the strawberry is the |
most widely cultivated in this country. |
From Maine to Florida, Mississippi, or
Texas in the south, and in California |
and other states on the west, one meets
with plats of two to fifty acres, yielding
many a rich repast of this wholesome
and favorite berry. In many other por
tions of the world the straberry finds a
home, and for ages past has it delighted
kings, and peasants with its rich aroma
and delicacy of flavor; while bards and
poets seem never to tire of singing the
praises of Strawberries and cream"
The ease with which this fruit can be
grown, and the adoption Of the plants to
widely different soils, enables those po-
sessing even the smallest gardens to
share in its rich treasures as a little plat
of land twenty or thirty feet square will
furnish many a heaping dish of ripe,
blushing strawberries. Nor are the bles-
sings derived from strawberries, to be
limited to the season of ripening but in
the form of tarts jellies, ices, preserves
ect. they prove welcome addition to the
desert table the most of the year. We
often have growers raising from two
hundred and fifty to three hundred bush
els of this lucious fruit per acre, we may
well say they are men who know by ex-
perience, the varieties adapted to their
soil, value of fertilizers cultivation,
methods of planting and last but not
least, Perfect and Imperfect varieties
that blend together and thus form truer ,
types of fruit. The perfect or stamietls r
varieties are endowed with a power
found in all types of vegetable life, the
power of transmitting vitality, to the
opposite, or pistillat varieties, the diff +
ference of the two may be easily seen at v
time by the long yellow''an :
thees that protrude from among the pes +
ills, in the perfects and in the imperfect
the pestils are only visible appearing
closely patched together and of the ap
pearance of very small strawberry, the
perfect or staminat varieties having the
inthees in the flowers will produce n
'ull crop if planted by themselves and
reed no assistance.
The Sistilates are among the most
varieties but tequire bed of :,
teammates or a row or two at least :
o be planted in close proximity =!
{ good cropsI are desired Varieties ;,
about the same time should
De planted close together in order that I,
he fertilization may be more perfect b.
strongly staminate should al p
Ways be always selected as they always q
make the finest appearing berries and in So
produce less culls or imper II
ect or misshapened fruit, as one of the sa
great results of the "cross bred" berry
5 to ripen and mature seeds. The ap- re
oearance of berries are often changed by bI
ising different fertilizers, this feature m
vas greatly illustrated at our last straw b
berry meeting when two specimens of to
3uback were onexhibition, one fertilized q
With enhance, ets., other with Parker. III
,arle, the former being a larger berry
iarker red with lighter and fewer seeds, w
he latter regular in fora lighter flesh 'a
INT darker seeds. thus we are enabled to VI
'rove that the male parent has much to '"
10 in changing appearances and l may ~
ay that many really good ptstilates are ="
'ronounced worthless, simply because -,
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