Biggle Berry Book: A Condensed Treatise on the Culture of Berries, with Leaves from the Experience of Many Practical Berry Growers in All Parts of the United States (Biggle Farm Library, No. 2)
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143 pp. Illustrated with 16 color plates, numerous black-and-white illustrations. CONTENTS: The Beginning; The Strawberry; What an Acre May Do; Soil and Location; Manuring and Preparing the Ground; Planting; The Planting Season; Summer Planting; Summer Planting--Continued; Saving Labor; Distance Apart; Mulching; Underdraining and Irrigation; Staminates and Pistillates; Ten Varieties of Established Merit; Other Old Varieties; Newer Varieties on Trial; Brief Analysis of Varieties; The Old Strawberry Bed; Do Varieties Run Out?; Leaf Rust and Insects; Picking and Marketing; Picking and Marketing--Continued; Contributor's Portraits; A List of Don'ts; Aftermath; The Raspberry; The Blackberry; The Current; The Gooseberry; Other Berries.