. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. TQl I BETTER FRUIT Page 21 line of ilie greau-^l inipiirtaiKc. Tlu- bisexual plant has both anthers and pistils, and will therefore pollenize itself, although experiments made on our farms indicate that even bisexuals will be more perfectly fertilized when set near other bisexuals of the same season. The pistil- late varieties have no anthers—make no pollen—and, therefore, will yield no fruit except when properly mated with bisex- uals. The fact that the pistillate exhausts none of its vitality' in pollen production, and, therefore, is enabled to develop to the f
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. TQl I BETTER FRUIT Page 21 line of ilie greau-^l inipiirtaiKc. Tlu- bisexual plant has both anthers and pistils, and will therefore pollenize itself, although experiments made on our farms indicate that even bisexuals will be more perfectly fertilized when set near other bisexuals of the same season. The pistil- late varieties have no anthers—make no pollen—and, therefore, will yield no fruit except when properly mated with bisex- uals. The fact that the pistillate exhausts none of its vitality' in pollen production, and, therefore, is enabled to develop to the full its fruiting powers, makes the pistillate, as a rule, a heavier yielder than the bisexual. However, in setting pistil- lates it is absolutely necessary that they shall be set near enough to bisexuals of the same blooming period to insure per- fect pollenization. The grower inay place one row of pistillates between flanking rows of bisexuals, or two rows or three rows of pistillates, as the pollen will carry readily over three rows of pistillate from the flanking rows of bisex- uals. One excellent plan is to set plants in the following order: Row one, early bisexual; rows two, three and four, medium pistillate; row five, late bisexual. In this way the bloom of the early bisexual will fertilize the earliest bloom of the medium pistillate, and the late bisexual will do the same for the latest bloom of the medium variety. Having selected the plants, the grower will proceed to get his soil in condition. Over a large portion of the country—and we believe this is likely to be true of the Pacific Coast and the Intermountain states as well as in the states east of the Missouri—the very best preparation for strawberries is a liberal coating of barn- yard manure, spread over the land at any time previous to plownng. The strawy part of the manure adds humus to the. I-//,. Company ;lossoms Copyrighted igio by R. M. K PLANT SHOWIXG HOW TO RKMOX E When setting your plants see that
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