. Biggle berry book; a condensed treatise on the culture of berries. Berries. of the boot, afterwards scraping some loose earth around the plant with the trowel and fingers, to prevent the earth baking. To ascertain how many plants are required for an acre, multiply the dis- ^'§^- 3 tance apart of the rows in feet by the distance apart of the plants in the rows, and divide the product into 43,560. Thus, if the rows are four feet apart and the plants two feet, it will take 5,445 to plant an acre. A spading fork or small sized potato hook are two good implements for taking up plants for setting.
. Biggle berry book; a condensed treatise on the culture of berries. Berries. of the boot, afterwards scraping some loose earth around the plant with the trowel and fingers, to prevent the earth baking. To ascertain how many plants are required for an acre, multiply the dis- ^'§^- 3 tance apart of the rows in feet by the distance apart of the plants in the rows, and divide the product into 43,560. Thus, if the rows are four feet apart and the plants two feet, it will take 5,445 to plant an acre. A spading fork or small sized potato hook are two good implements for taking up plants for setting. A trowel is too slow. Rake the beds with a good steel rake before digging, which takes off most of the old runners and leaves the plants in good condition for cleaning. If the plants are in plant beds dig up the whole row, throwing out the old plants. If plants are to be taken from a Fig- 4 fruiting bed dig from the side of the rows. As fast as shaken from the soil have men and boys gather them up, holding the plants in the left hand. Crown of the plants as near even as possible, and when the hand is full trim off all runners and lay in a handle basket, roots straight, and all one way. Take to the packing house. Clean and bunch them and dip the roots in water, and if to be shipped, pack in moss and forward as soon as possible. If to be set out at home, put them in the cellar for twenty- four hours before planting. The tip ends of the roots are cut off just before settinp-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia, W. Atkinson co.
Size: 1591px × 1570px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectberries, bookyear1894
