The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-22

ties too soft for the old mode of ship
ment can now be carried safely. Still,
II is a most valuable quality when COM
bined with other good ones, such as
productiveness, size and color.
The Hoffman is the ideal southern
shipping berry. With large size 1t
combines unsurpassed flrmness and
brilliancy of coloring and extreme
earliness. The plants are vigorous
and uncommonly free from disease.
While not as productive as the Lady
Thompson, the high prices and good
profits realized for years on the Hoff-
man at Charleston proves its very
great value.
No variety has ever set the world
agog as the Lady Thompson has. The
vigor vitality and productiveness of
this variety are truly marvellous. What
is singular about it, is that these quail
tiles seem to be on the increase instead
of the wane as is the case with nearly
all new kinds.
The Lady Thompson will grow and
bear on soil too poor and thirsty to
produce any other variety with any de-
gree of success. And while many quar-
rel with its qualities, all plant more
or less of ii.
Brandywine combines much of the
firmness of brilliant coloring of Hoff-
man with the productiveness of the
Lady Thompson. In size it surpasses
both. Excepting the few localities in
which the Brandywine plants are held
not to thrive, this is one of the most
profitable varieties that can be grown
at the South. Brandywine differs from
both Hoffman and Lady Thompson in
that 1T also does well in the North, the
two latter varieties being like fish out
OF water when carried nf their
ural habitat-the South.
Excelsior, an extremely early variety,
is very similar to it's parent. the Hoff-
man, but far more productive. Like
Brandywine, it succeeds generally over
the whole country, except a few places
at the far South where the plant is not
thrifty.
Newman is still planted by some
Florida growers who value 1t for its
fine shipping qualities. But few are
grown elsewhere.
Cloud, on account of its remarkable
healthfulness of plant growth, is pop
ular in many parts of the South 1t
is good sized, firm, we'll colored ber-
ry and very productive in some re-
gions. 1t fails at the North.
There are other varieties Of straw
berries that succeed at the South. Those
mentioned above are simply the leading
ones.
The Southern strawberry grower has
one more advantage than those men
toned at the beginning of this paper.
He does not have to wait twelve
months or more to reap the fruits of
his toll. The Florida grower sets his
plants in the fall and gathers a full
crop in the spring. While growers in
the Central South cannot realize as
quickly as this, they can plant in fall,
pl fa;Y h.
spring and full crop a year later.
Well MANFRED and well prepared soil
is most important where plants are
set in fall with view to crop the
following spring. Good. well-rooted
plants are no less essential The size
of the crop the following spring de-
Ponds chiefly upon the size of the
plants. AS the growing period between
fall and spring is short. it is all i'm
portant to have the best of plants on
good soil to start with
While large success has been enter
tanned by manuring poor land just be-
fore planting, it is always best when
possible to plant on soil which was
thoroughly MANFRED for some summer
crop The fertility will then be well
incorporated with the soil and in con-
dition for the immediate use of the
plants.
There is no better manure for fall
set plants than cotton seed meal Say
500 to 700 pounds an acre in the drill.
This should be followed before bloom
ing time by a soluble fertilizer rich
in potash. A good formula is, per
acre:
100 pounds of sulphate of potash.
100 pounds nitrate of soda.
80 pounds acid phosphate.
Mix we'll and apply broadcast over
plants when dormant. If in a grow
ing state apply around and between
them.