Bulletin . s equal potash and phosphoric acid have a tendency toproduce earliness, solidity, quality and color in the strawberry,while excess of nitrogen tends to produce heavy foliage and latematurity, with large, soft, irregular, light-colored fruit. Setting Plants. Spring is the best season for setting, the time recommendedbeing from May 1 to 10. Use only plants of the past seasonsgrowth which may be distinguished by the light color andthrifty appearance of the roots, while the roots of old plantsare dark brown in color. Prepare plants for setting by remov-ing dead leaves and trailers, as w
Bulletin . s equal potash and phosphoric acid have a tendency toproduce earliness, solidity, quality and color in the strawberry,while excess of nitrogen tends to produce heavy foliage and latematurity, with large, soft, irregular, light-colored fruit. Setting Plants. Spring is the best season for setting, the time recommendedbeing from May 1 to 10. Use only plants of the past seasonsgrowth which may be distinguished by the light color andthrifty appearance of the roots, while the roots of old plantsare dark brown in color. Prepare plants for setting by remov-ing dead leaves and trailers, as well as all large new leaves, leav-ing not over one medium-sized leaf on a plant; also shortenroots, if long, to three or four inches; plant in rows four feetapart, setting the plants 18 to 2-1 inches apart in the row, de-pending upon the freedom of varieties to set plants. Securestraight row^s by marking out or by the use of a line. Set plantsfirmly in moist soil with roots well spread, being careful to set. Fig. 1.—A tino-i/ear old draivhernj field, showing the wide malted wirx; plantswere set 18 inches apaH in rows every 4 Mt> walks 15 to IS inches wide. May, 190S] strawberries for new HAMPSHIRE. 103 the same depth as when standing- in the old l^ed. In movingphints from old to new location, they should be kept moist andcovered to prevent damap:e from evaporation and set as quicklyas possible after being dug. If necessary to purchase plants,secure them from a nearby grower if possible, as packing insmall, close bundles and shipping long distances is a devital-izing process no matter how much care is exercised at both endsof the journey. Potted plants for summer and fall setting aretoo expensive for commercial planting and should only be con-sidered by the small grower. Varieties. The large number of highly advertised varieties, onh a fewof which are adapted to any one combination of climate, soil,markets and methods of growing, renders selection a very im-portant as well
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