STRAWBERRY GROWING.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13231, 26 September 1908, Page 7

STRAWBERRY GROWING.

It is not generaHy Imown; that Sep?| tember, is one of tho very best; months , in tho year for plantirigout _t-uw_ony; [ v plants, and if strong plants are set -out? now, they will make splendid ,i and establish themselves,:":.,- and ■> formS strong roots for. the succeeding < supply of fruit. * Not only so, but if'i the roots aro plump, and .hive* tho § flower crown formed within them, will give a supply of fruit . tho : fir«ti-ri summer after, planting.. Wo some most successful strawbeny whioh havo been planted "out ; September. Their success has beentho resnlt of a combination of several influi,? ends —viz., first the weather has.boenti suitable, warm _nd* humid,- the fisoily has been thoroughly cultivated and- well ? dressed with -bone dust (a food =: of which strawberry plants : are ; ; very? partial to), and some oar© v ■__•_■.£ b©eu.s oxercised ia: setting out the During the; earlygrowing: season-'fth_?-hoe has been constantly' used; and 0 in l midsummer the i plants "have-been: top-: • dressed with, short lawn. 5 cutting"; or.V straw stable manure. .:•'■ Another advaii-':'■' tage in setting out strawberry, planta'at;this season of the year-is that they,.;-rui»_l no risks of "being-r thrown outa o| |"th%;"i "ground by frosts.:.-.: amateurs. have lost lorco of their. hewly^t^at' : .-frosts this plants rishtout of them exposed to tho ;.r_s_lt,h-vejperw^|^^ riiiiih-trflnfiilT^'M^^