Show strawberry IS NOW QUEEN they are earliest of fruits to ripen and can be grown in any part of the country by J A DAUER BAUER in the growing of the strawberry we have the queen of fruits none excepted and in calling them the queen of fruits we think it safe in also adding that they are the earliest of fruits ripening their large crop of fine dark red colored berries from ten to fifteen days earlier than any other kind of fruit gj briwn wu the strawberry can be grown in any part of the th e united states or canada and will thrive anywhere if sufficient water Is had and in case you a plenty of rain you can turn water on them from your well or water ditch if in the dry parts of the united states we have found that they will bear as well vell this way as where we have plenty of 6 mova 11 luscious strawberry rain the main thing Is to keep the ground good and moist there are around two hundred varieties of the str amberry grown now to about twenty varieties in 1880 but you need not expect a good berry from all these th ese varieties us as many of the two tw 0 hundred tire arc not worth planting and I 1 feel sate safe in saying that 40 to 50 varieties will catch the most promising sorts out of this vast number |