. Dreer's mid-summer list, strawberry plants, celery and other seasonable plants, seeds etc. : July 1896 August. Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs. Bi-sexual or Perfect Blossom. DIRECTIONS FOR GARDEN CULTURE. To cultivate strawberries for family use, we recommend a thorough prep- aration of the ground by spading or plowing. Work into the soil a liberal quantity of well-rotted manure. Use also, our brands of ground bone and wood ashes. Plant in rows two feet apart; the plants fifteen inches apart i
. Dreer's mid-summer list, strawberry plants, celery and other seasonable plants, seeds etc. : July 1896 August. Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs. Bi-sexual or Perfect Blossom. DIRECTIONS FOR GARDEN CULTURE. To cultivate strawberries for family use, we recommend a thorough prep- aration of the ground by spading or plowing. Work into the soil a liberal quantity of well-rotted manure. Use also, our brands of ground bone and wood ashes. Plant in rows two feet apart; the plants fifteen inches apart in rows. Pinch off all runners. Cultivate frequently. In December, cover the entire bed an inch deep with straw or long litter from the stable. In late March, remove litter from crowns of the plants, but not from the alleys. Use suflScient straw about plants to keep the berries clean. This is. the "hill" system of strawberry growing, and is especially adapted to summer and autumn planting most work, but produces finest berries and largest crop from a given area. The "matted row" plan, more especially suited to spring planting, is used by all market gardeners, and is adapted to family gardens also. It is substantially as follows :—Prepare the ground as above. Set the plants in rows three feet apart, and fifteen inches apart in rows ; permit runners to form and take root; cultivate the alleys continually, as close to the plants as possible, finally making alley and row each about eighteen inches in width. Keep the bed wholly free of weeds. Cover in winter, as above, and in March, uncover crowns of plants. Use plenty of mulching, so as to keep berries clean, and ground moist and cool. All varieties oflered in this list have perfect or bi-sexual blossoms, except those marked {P). which are destitute of stamens, and are termed pistillate or imperfect flowering varieties, and must be planted near some perfect flowering sort, or they will produce little or no frui
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