. STRAWBERRIES URELY it is right to head the list with this, to our notion, most important and profitable of all the small fruits, as they can be more successfully grown over a wider field and on a greater variety of soil than any other of the small fruits, come" into fruiting in shortest time after planting, and are the first fruits of the year to ripen. Will fruit fairly well on any soil and with little or no culture, yet respond most readily to kindly location and liberal feeding and culture. Every home builder who fails to have the delicious, health-giving Strawberry as one of the fou
. STRAWBERRIES URELY it is right to head the list with this, to our notion, most important and profitable of all the small fruits, as they can be more successfully grown over a wider field and on a greater variety of soil than any other of the small fruits, come" into fruiting in shortest time after planting, and are the first fruits of the year to ripen. Will fruit fairly well on any soil and with little or no culture, yet respond most readily to kindly location and liberal feeding and culture. Every home builder who fails to have the delicious, health-giving Strawberry as one of the foundation supports, misses a chance of great things for little money. For a family supply, you want from one to two quarts per day for each member of the family. Through a season of 6 weeks, that can be had by planting both early and late varieties ; and for market from IOO to 700 bushels per acre, according to your skill and ability to " get ; How best to do it is told in Judge Biggie's berry book, just issued at the low price of 50 cents, by The Farm Journal Co., of Philadelphia. In writing the book, the Judge did not go it alone, but on most every point gives the opinions of most of the leading up-to-date extensive culturists. Our Mr. J. H. Hale had a hand in it. Besides freely furnishing a fair share of the text, typical specimens of the different berries were gathered as they ripened, and daily instructions furnished our artist, so that the beautiful illustrations in colors that rmbellisb the book are true representativesof the many varieties of berries produced here at '' The Elms. " season of 1894. We consider it a great compliment to our skill in berry culture that the most complete book ever issued on small fruit culture in this country should find in our berry plan- tation its ideals of perfection for over 95 per cent, of its colored plates. Is not this a pointer as to where to find the best plants? Judge Biggie made up his berry book by asking 20 d
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