Show strawberry y W chure we 1 mr T B miner of clinton N Y V in ia a commard communication cation catlon to the country gan hman kman on stra atra strawberry aberry culture bays says I 1 have succeeded in the culture of strawberries by setting the plants the first week in october but itis it is riot not safe generally to wait till that time and I 1 recommend any time from august to september from considerable experience in in growing strawberries and from extensive reading of the writings of those engaged in the business both for tamly ramly fam ly use and market consumption I 1 am fully convinced that the cheapest and easiest way to produce good crol crops is by adopting the row system instead of hills however I 1 some varieties of plants produce larger fruit on the hill system but there are kinds that are very prolific bearers in rows or ullen when the ground is covered with a compact mass of plants wilsons Wil wll song sons a edling will bear enormous crops in this condition even where the plants are so close that not a particle of earth can be seen where the plants are grown in beds or rows on this system the ground is so shaded by the foliage of the E plants lants that th 3 y withstand a drouth much etter better than when grown in hills tile the usual distance that rows of strawberry plants are set apart depends on the size of the plot in some measure for garden culture two or two and a hait half feet will do ver very well wol but for field culture they should not le be les than three to four feet apart in the garden the plants maybe may be allowed to spread in tile the rows on each side so as to leave mer ly a path nath ath wide enough to walk in to pick the fruit in field culture the runners may spread and fill up the entire ground but as soon as the fruiting fruiting season is ia past a plow should be run thron through 1 the vines cutting up the plants in strips from three to four feet wide wida wl d e leaving I 1 rows of the he latest growth of plants to restock rest ocic ocle the he land for the next seasons old beds of strawberries that bave baye grown into a thick mass of plants should be thinned out with a hoe as aa soon as the fruit picking reason heason season is pas so as to leave the plants stand ins about a foot apart two tiro years is as long iong as it is advisable to crop the same plants and in order to grow this fruit with the best success means must be taken ever evet eveia season for a supply of new plants on tie the row or bed system this is effected by cutting out a large portion of the old vines as soon as the fruit is gone and allowing the runners from those left to replace those cut out it is generally underwood under food I 1 presume that straw stran strawberry berry plants are of two bexes sexes male and female or staminate and pistil ate thestal Th the stam estam injates males should always accompany the pistil atea atee in the ratio of one row of maie madie to three or four of the female plants ates are ee belf self f and may be grown separate from the pistil ates where it is desirable to do so eo but no pistil ate according to the theory now generally acknowledged can produce its maximum of fruit unless it be grown in tile the close vicinity of a staminate variety where the ground is generally covered with snow during the winter I 1 do not consider it important to cover the vines as a winter protection tec tion I 1 never cover mine having man many large beds covering about half an acre ar and in my Y plants are seldom injured by the frosts B but t plant plants a set in the fali are liable to heave out of the he ground in the early spring and it is therefore advisable to plant thern them early enough to become well rooted and in the spring to press those into the earth that have been thrown out by the frost when plants are covered for a winter protection tec tion something should be first laid down among them to raise the covering an inch or two from the ground in order to allow the air to circulate under the cov covering or the covering erinT plants will be liable to be sm smothered othere any coarse coar ae litter such as barnyards afford is 13 suitable to cover the plants b but ut always in a manner to afford bome some air among them |