The strawberry for everybody . to place two plants in each hill,requiring, of course, double the numbers as planted cut back the canes to within afew inches of the ground. The cap varietiessucceed not only on good soil, but yield largeprofitable crops on the lightest kind of sandyland. In field culture plant them in rows sevenfeet apart and three and a half feet distant inthe row, requiring 1778 plants to the acre; orfive feet apart each way, requiring 1742 plantsto the acre. In garden culture plant four feetapart each way. Keep the soil loose and free of weeds throughout the seaso
The strawberry for everybody . to place two plants in each hill,requiring, of course, double the numbers as planted cut back the canes to within afew inches of the ground. The cap varietiessucceed not only on good soil, but yield largeprofitable crops on the lightest kind of sandyland. In field culture plant them in rows sevenfeet apart and three and a half feet distant inthe row, requiring 1778 plants to the acre; orfive feet apart each way, requiring 1742 plantsto the acre. In garden culture plant four feetapart each way. Keep the soil loose and free of weeds throughout the season, cutting down thesuckers with the hoe or cultivator, and leaving only single rows, or three or four canes to thehill, for fruiting. Prune the bearing canes of the upright-growing varieties by cutting backone-half their length on an average and shorten in the laterals as shown in the pruning Blackcaps cut the bearing canes at the middle of the bend. The pruning should bedone in the late winter or early EATON A chance seedling from the West and said bythe introducers to be The largest, most beau-tiful, firmest and most productive of all redRaspberries—extra quality. Canes mediumgrowers, tough and hardy. Received a bronzemedal at Pan-American Exposition and silvermedal at St. Louis Worlds Fair. The Eatonhas made a very satisfactory growth at Mon-mouth and is very promising. It will notfruit with me until next summer. Doz., $;100, $ PERFECTION A New York State seedling, of ironcladhardiness and prodigious growth. Its thorn-less canes grow ten feet high and are liter-ally loaded at fruiting time, with large, lus-cious, bright crimson, very firm berries. Itbegins to ripen early and continues in bear-ing for two months. If this remarkable Rasp-berry sustains in other localities the recordit has made at the place of its origin, it willprove to be a variety of untold value. Doz.,$; 100, $
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