. [Fruit culture]. d it is, of course, always necessary when home-grown plantsare used. When strawberry plants are bought they usuallycome in little bundles of twenty-five to thirt3^ As soon as thesebundles are received the roots should be pruned by taking thebundle in one hand and clipping off about one-third of the rootsystem with the scissors. Also, all large leaves except one ortwo of the healthiest should be removed. The removal of theseleaves prevents a too rapid transpiration of moisture from theplant before the plant is able to establish itself, and this may §16 STRAWBERRIES even preve
. [Fruit culture]. d it is, of course, always necessary when home-grown plantsare used. When strawberry plants are bought they usuallycome in little bundles of twenty-five to thirt3^ As soon as thesebundles are received the roots should be pruned by taking thebundle in one hand and clipping off about one-third of the rootsystem with the scissors. Also, all large leaves except one ortwo of the healthiest should be removed. The removal of theseleaves prevents a too rapid transpiration of moisture from theplant before the plant is able to establish itself, and this may §16 STRAWBERRIES even prevent the plants from drying if a period of dry weatherfollows planting. In Fig. 6 strawberry plants before and afterpruning are shown. The one in (a) is unpruned and that in(b) is pruned. In this case all but one of the large leaves hasbeen removed, although in the case of large vigorous plants itis sometimes advisable to leave two leaves. The small, partlydeveloped leaves at the top of the crown are, of course, lef. Fig. 6 untouched, as they will form the future leaves on the plant,fruit buds on the plants should also be removed. Anv 10. Deptli of Planting.—The depth of planting straw-berries is extremely important. The crown should be set soas to stand just at the surface of the ground, after the groundhas been pressed against it. If the crown is left too high outof the ground it will dry out, and if it is planted too low it will 249—22 12 STRAWBERRIES §16 be likely to rot. In Fig. 7 three strawberry plants are shownplanted in different ways; the one in (a) is planted too high,the one in (b) is planted at the proper depth, and the one in (c)is planted too deep. 11. Setting of Plants.—After the rows are marked out,the setting of the strawberry plants may be done with a dibbleor a spade. A dibble particularly adapted for strawberry set-ting has been previously illustrated and is shown in operationin Fig. 8. Round dibbles may also be used, but they are not
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