. Kellogg's great crops of small fruits : and how to grows them. Nurseries (Horticulture) Michigan Three Rivers Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs. SMALL FRUITS AND HOW HE GROWS THEM. \ ushes or cut off any blossoms. Let them bear all they will each year. Notice that after one very large crop they bear smaller berries and fewer in number, but the bushes continue to grow vigorously and the strawberries throw out a great number of runners but set little fruit. Now take cuttings and straw berry runners from these plants and cultivate care- fully and you will get a host of bushes and straw- b
. Kellogg's great crops of small fruits : and how to grows them. Nurseries (Horticulture) Michigan Three Rivers Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs. SMALL FRUITS AND HOW HE GROWS THEM. \ ushes or cut off any blossoms. Let them bear all they will each year. Notice that after one very large crop they bear smaller berries and fewer in number, but the bushes continue to grow vigorously and the strawberries throw out a great number of runners but set little fruit. Now take cuttings and straw berry runners from these plants and cultivate care- fully and you will get a host of bushes and straw- berry plants with very little fruit and that inferior in quality. Why is this ?—Because through the excessive seminal effort of pollen secretion they become impo- tent or in other words their breeding powers being overtaxed are destroyed and then they throw their energies to the growth of wood and runners. Let me repeat. Fruit production is a sexual act. Fruit 'orms as a substance for the seeds to grow in and the development of fruit depends entirely on the seminal vigor of the plant and large crops of fine fruit cannot be grown on trees, bushes or plants which are weak- ened in fruit production. Is not rich soil and extra good tillage the true basis of large crops of fine fruit ?—These are abso- lutely necessary. No one can expect plants to re- spond in fine fruit when they are overrun with weeds and have little plant food in the soil, but note care- fully the fact that exhausted plants cannot be forced into large fruitage in this way. How are "cheap" plants grown?—These ex- hausted plants throw all their energies to making runners. They will produce several times as many plants as those trained to produce fruit and hence growers are able to offer them for little more than the cost of digging and packing. Will not exhausted plants make large roots and leaves?—Certainly they will. The trouble is, being exhausted in seed bearing they will not form fruit buds and
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