. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. erfect (or pistillate) flowers as well as with perfect flowers (thosecontaining both stamens and pistils). It is important to give carefulattention to this point in planting a plantation, as a patch made up ofpistillate sorts alone will be unproductive, while many such sorts when 82 SUCCESSFUL FARMING proptrly intiTspcrscd witli ixTfect-flowcred varii-tics have j)rovtd to bethe largest fruit^^d and prolific sorts. A common practice is to setevor> fourth or fifth row with a jHTfcct-flowircd sort which Mooms a
. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. erfect (or pistillate) flowers as well as with perfect flowers (thosecontaining both stamens and pistils). It is important to give carefulattention to this point in planting a plantation, as a patch made up ofpistillate sorts alone will be unproductive, while many such sorts when 82 SUCCESSFUL FARMING proptrly intiTspcrscd witli ixTfect-flowcred varii-tics have j)rovtd to bethe largest fruit^^d and prolific sorts. A common practice is to setevor> fourth or fifth row with a jHTfcct-flowircd sort which Mooms at thesame jicriod as the i)istillat( variety of which the i)lantation is chieflycomposed. When to Set the Plants.—The time to i)laiit depends, in humid regions,more upon the rainfall t haii ujxtn any other factor. If there are not timelyrains at the jilaiiting season to give the i)lants an o])j)()rttinity to estaMishtiiemselves, the stand will he uneven, \\ith the result that more work will i>erequired to keep the land free from weeds and more trouble will be neces-. Plantin(; a Strawberky Runner. On tho right a plant rnrrcctly iilanfod, showing roots sjiroad out; on the left a plant put in in the wronii position with roots crowded toRother. sary to fill the blank spaces with runners from the i)lMnts that survive. Theplants that withstand the drought are checked and dwarfed. Tliey seldomrecover so jvs to nuike eitluT satisfactory croi)|>ers or plant producers. Itis most satisfactory and most economical, therefon*, to choose that ofTers most advantages at ])lanting time, other things being (( is imi)ossible to specify the sut in some localities spring ])lantingshould be done in Ai)ril or .May by the use of the i)receding seasons plants,while in others it may be donr in .lunr from t
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