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Identifier: fragariculture00gill (find matches)
Title: Fragariculture;
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Gillet, Felix. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Strawberry. (from old catalog)
Publisher: San Francisco, Spaulding & Barto, printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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and that were some thirtydays on the way, in a mail-bag, some 132 days in a boxwith other plants. Duration of Strawberry Beds. A plantation of Straw^berries, according to varieties, willlast from two to five years. When two years old, however,the beds have to be well manured, in the fall the better,and the plants banked up or re-setted. If runners aretoo much allowed to run and root, it injures somewhat theplants, abridges their life and diminishes considerably theiryield, the sap being spent for nothing; and this effort atreproducing itself enervates and weakens the motherplant. The stirring up of the surface, manuring, spading, hoe-ing and all the other cares of a Strawberry plantation, willprolong its existenr-e and make it 3deld a year and morelonger. The more rich, shaded and moist is the ground, themore space have the plants, the longer, then, will be theirduration and more certain will be the crop. Strawberry x^lants set by themselves, in hills, are thosethat last the iongest.
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THE LADY I 21 Mode to Perpetuate Strawberry Beds. Rotation is as good to gTound set for a Strawberry plan-tation than to any other crops. So, when Strawdoerryplants are o-etting too okl, they are digged out, burned upin )iiles and the ashes spread over the ground—which hasto be well manured—and a crop of vegetables raised onthe first year and planted back in Strawberries the ensuingfall. If, however, the garden was too small to admit sucha rotation, and no other room could be had on the placewhere to set a new Strawdjerry bed, then the best would beto take out about nine inches of dirt from the old bed andhave new one from any part of the garden put in its place,manure it and set young plants, rooted runners being al-ways the best ones. How to make Strawberries last. So delicious is the Strawberry, that people are not con-tented with having some during their usual season, butwant them to last a longer time. The way to have Straw-berries half the year round is to plant, to a very g

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