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Show Intensive Berry Culture. ' 'How does my garden grow ," Well, b-?av.tirui:y, and i-roiitabiy, even if it is - oniy a molasses Oarrel." said Dr. Ceii 1). Gaston, who has an esthetic temperament, tempera-ment, combined with utility in many "Lo you want a strawberry patch of your own in a space ten feet sucaref Get you a molasses "barrel, bore 120 two-inch r ajger hoies in tne staves (counting the bang hoiej: set the barrel on end. with ;- the heal out; fill it with rich earth . lake-i with fertilizer, rotted manure preferably; place a perforated three-inch tube of metal or tile down center to cour water into. After your barrel is jluly prepared, put a strawberry plant in each hole, and then wait for the finest crop of luscious berries free from grit, - too yon ever plucked. They wilt hanti , there, minlic their rich red with the white blossoms" and the dark jrreen foli-a?e foli-a?e of the thriving plants, a pretty thing to look at. Vou do not have to 'break your bark picking the ripe fruit. The barrel will be a thing of ornamental - beauty in the early si-rin with its Eireen leaves and wealth 01 white blossoms almost al-most covering it. "It would bo woll to have a small " oanvas to shelter the barrel from early froa. or the too hot rays of the sun. Such a boiry barrel as ! now have will r supply continuous! v for weeks plenty of berries for a small family breakfast; as nim-h as an eighth of an'acre of garden " fepace. and deaner. better berries, too." -Age-Herald. |