Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1859 — STRAWBERRIES. [ARTICLE]

STRAWBERRIES.

Strawberries grow naturally and wild in tins o unty in every p .rt of it, and in some seasons in gre.it abundance. Lke everything ei’.e, strawoer.'ies are improved by cultivation. It, when you find an extra cluster ol large berries ripe on a stalk in summer, you v\ ili take up its root and set it out in a convenient bed where the weeds and grass can be kept from it, the berries will be much I irger and plentier the next year, than they were at lire time you found it. By this means hardy"'prolific vines are obtained, which are natives of the c imate. The longnecKs, scarlet and flesh-colored may all be bid in this tv ay-. It will much, improve t'wrn if two or three varieties *r« planted in the same bed. They do nit need* rich soil, no hilling, n > manuring, keep them clean, cut j the runners, and they will grow. Improved, domesticated varieties, of the finest kinds grow admirably in this countv, an-.l'With the same care the natives do, al;;i aigh some sorts are less hardy in in uni avorab le- vi i liter.