Show THE strawberry ITS irs CULTURE AND THE adaptability or OF THE IMPORTED VARIETIES TO THE localities OF UTAH ARTICLE NO 4 we now come cone to the treatment of the strawberry in the fall and the necessary prepare rations for securing the vines and preserving them in a healthy condition through the winter proper culture in the fall of the year to s an important auxiliary to the next years yeara crop immediately after fruiting the dry dead leaves and runners should be taken on off and a liberal supply of rotten manure forked in between the rows then during the early fall season keep the bed free from weeds and runners except such rows as are intended to ie be left to multiply and they should be kept clean and free from weeda weeds also aso that ia therun th iun inn ners nera may nay be the more thrifty and the better suited bulted for transplanting in the spring the soil between those rows rowa reserved tor for multiply multipliers ers erb ought to be kept light and loose around the old crowns and likewise in the rows that the runners may have the better chance of rooting if it be desirable to produce a great number of young plants for use in the spring it will be to the advantage of the person designing to use or sell them to bhend a ittle little time every week in fastening down the newly grown joint or shoot next to the one at the end of the stem this ma may y be done by putting upon it a handful of light mould this is the mode of treatment adopted ty by mr watt and we have practised practiced the same method with success mr ellerbeck pursues an n entirely different course of treatment with hla hia unsurpassed bed of the wilson wilton variety As soon as the fruit is gathered ga therel be he cuts os off all the foliage of the old plan pian plants 0 o close to the crowns being careful not to mar then he at then manures lightly but does doeg not cover coyer his vines in the winter we think a light coa coating ting of long manure put on in november novem er is to an advantage in this climate mr E seems to be fully convinced that thit bib bis style of mowing off the leaves and stems is the best beat way to treat and manage the wilsons Wil sons albany perhaps it Is on the bench land but we could not recommend its adoption on the low lands those who leave their strawberry beds to manage themselves after the fruit ardit is picked ia in the summer and pay no more attention to kem them hem until the next spring will have but a poor crop of berries ber rieb the variety williede will be deteriorated teri terl orated in size if not injured in flavor such Is the result of our own experience which Is fully confirmed by observation W we have known persons doubtless desirous of saving labor allow their beds of strawberries to grow or run into a complete and solid mat of vines and then in the spring of the year stretch a garden line along either where the rows used ta to be er were wanted wan ted to be dig out a spades breadth every three feet and then in the summer think it very strange that they had not nob as good a crop or as large berries as those of their neighbors who were proverbial for being bein 9 always weeding and f fussing about their strawberry beds when dr johnson was asked what was the first rule ruie to be observed and mastered maste redin in order to become or make a man a great orator he answered pronunciation when asked for the second be he made the same reply and on being interrogated as to the third he still persisted persist e d in saying so we may safely gay say ay in regard to the rules to be adopted by by those who wish to be considered successful strawberry growers the first second and third rules are cultivation cultivation we might as well continue to set out the wild strawberry plants found in many parts ot of this territory and in great abundance in in bear lake valley asto as to import improved varieties and then permit them to run them elves selves out wild strawberries can be improved by cultivation and improved varieties will certainly run wild it if neglected the four varieties recommended for cultivation in this territory are sufficiently hardy to stand aland through the winter without covering still some preter prefer ep spreading a a thin coating of i long manure over the beds in november believing that thereby the full benefit of the winters snows will be b received by the pa plants ants la in addition to the th importations named in a previous article other gentlemen have taken an honorable and praiseworthy praise worthy part in introducing new varieties into our mountain home among the most prominent we may mention mr john jaques mr john T calne caine mr oliphant and the deseret agricultural and manufacturing society imported the hooker and howeya seeding the same season that mr oliphant introduced the hooker the Fill basket was imported both by calne caine and ellerbeck mr jaques hab hag more recently received from the east the following varieties la constant bonte de st julien bartlett and downer but these have not been thoroughly tested mr prince of the state of new york calls the la constant a perfect strawberry though we cannot agree with mr prince we think with friend jaques that notwithstanding the berry is rather small it is one of the finest flavored yet introduced here none of 0 these last named varieties have been sufficiently tried on the bench lands sad and we are not aware that any have been planted on or the low lands but it Is thought that la constant and bonte de st julen julien may prove brove suitable for cultivation in utah |