. The amateur's practical garden-book;. Gardening. Well planted Strawberry given. Large fruits and a number of them may be had by growing to the single plant, keeping off all runners and relying on numerous fruit-crowns on one plant for the crop of berries. Or Strawberries may be grown by the nar- row matted-row system, in which the runners, before rooting, should be turned along the rows at a distance of from 4 to 6 inches from the parent plant. These runners should be the first ones made by the plant and should not be allowed to root themselves, but "set ; This is not a difficul
. The amateur's practical garden-book;. Gardening. Well planted Strawberry given. Large fruits and a number of them may be had by growing to the single plant, keeping off all runners and relying on numerous fruit-crowns on one plant for the crop of berries. Or Strawberries may be grown by the nar- row matted-row system, in which the runners, before rooting, should be turned along the rows at a distance of from 4 to 6 inches from the parent plant. These runners should be the first ones made by the plant and should not be allowed to root themselves, but "set ; This is not a difficult opera- tion ; and if the runners are separated from the parent plant as soon as they become well established, the drain on that plant is not great. All other run- ners should be cut off as they start. The row should be about 12 inches wide at fruiting time. Each plant should have sufficient feeding ground, full sunlight, and a firm hold in the soil. This matted-row system is perhaps as good a method, either in a private garden or field culture, as could be practiced. With a little care in hoeing, weed- ing and cutting off runners, the beds seem to produce as large crops the second year as the first. The old way of growing a crop was to set the plants 10 to 12 inches apart, in rows 3 feet apart, and al- low them to run and root at will, the results being a mass of small, crowded plants, each striving to ob- tain plant-food and none of them succeeding in getting enough. The last, or outside runners, having but the tips of their roots in the ground, are moved by the wind, heaved by the frost, or have the exposed roots dried out bv the wind and Pot-grown Strawberry. 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 Hunn, C[harles] E[lias] [from old catalog]; Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954, joint a
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