. Catalogue of pedigree plants for season of 1893. Nurseries (Horticulture) Connecticut Catalogs; Nursery stock Connecticut Glastonbury; Fruit Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. Figure a. Good soil, deep ploughing, thorough culture and liberal feeding make the strawberry plant laugh and grow fat; they are very thirsty at fruiting time BUT don't like beer ; simply "stand there speechless " crying water, water, and it will pay to give it to them in some way if you are after the most and largest berries. Well-rotted stable manure is a good fertilizer,
. Catalogue of pedigree plants for season of 1893. Nurseries (Horticulture) Connecticut Catalogs; Nursery stock Connecticut Glastonbury; Fruit Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. Figure a. Good soil, deep ploughing, thorough culture and liberal feeding make the strawberry plant laugh and grow fat; they are very thirsty at fruiting time BUT don't like beer ; simply "stand there speechless " crying water, water, and it will pay to give it to them in some way if you are after the most and largest berries. Well-rotted stable manure is a good fertilizer, but fine ground bone and wood ashes are better. Early Spring is the best time to plant in the Northern States, but it may be done most any month in the year that the ground is free from frost; narrow rows, three feet apart, will give more and better fruit than thickly matted rows or solid beds. .""^ Many make the mistake of allowing too many runners to take root, overcrowding never pays. Careless planting often results in a stunted growth of plants early in the season that it is impossible to remedy Careless Planting, later. In any but a stiff clay soil, if it has been properly prepared, a man crawling along on his hands and knees can, with one hand, scoop out a hole three or four inches deep, and, with the fingers of the other hand, spread out the roots of the plant, place it in position, and rapidly cover it with earth with both hands; then, as he makes a jump ' forward for the next plant, bring nearly the whole weight of his body down on his hands, close up about the newly set plant, and it is well planted, as shown in the cut. Figure I. In the hurry of the planting season, some careless men fail to spread out the roots prop- erly, and so double them up, and put them in all in one mass, as in Figure 2. Roots all massed together in such a way vnll often mould and die, while, if the plant lives, it makes but wrong way of plantinc. feeble growth till such time as it
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