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SAT. Feb. 16 Hint Hill 4-H Sewing Class at 1:00

At a special meeting on small fruits and vegetables, Mr. Bruce Aroian Extension Small Fruit specialist suggested every home garden to be complete should have a part set aside for the perennial plants, those that grow year after year without replanting.

There should be some small fruit as strawberries and raspberries in this perennial garden.

A good many varieties are available but the number of varieties used in the home garden should be limited. Those varieties which have proved most satisfactory in Virginia over a wide range of soils and climatic conditions were:

Strawberries—Dixieland Early, Catskill, Pocahontas,. Tennessee Beauty and Robinson. Everbearing strawberries were Superfection, Streamliner and Gem. The everbearing varieties gave the nicest berries and largest quantity when all runners were removed throughout the season and flowers were removed until July. He suggested these be planted in early spring, one foot apart in rows of four. Tendays later mulch with 1 inch of sawdust to help hold in the

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