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for shipping, but as above stated, very choice in quality. There 

 are new varieties, and old ones by the hundreds. You can exper- 

 iment with them to your heart's content, but stick to the Wilson 

 as your main dependence, whether for home or for market, until 

 you are sure of some.hing better. 



In setting upon a farm where a few rods of land more or less 

 will make no difference, it would be well to set the rows three 

 feet apart and the plants eighteen inches apart in the rows. By 

 so doing you will be able to do nearly all the cultivating with a 

 horse and cultivator. If you are setting in a garden where you 

 have but little room and wish to make the most of it, make the 

 rows about two feet apart, and set the plants about fifteen inches 

 apart in the rows. In setting out the plants, set them well in the 

 ground, at the same time being careful not to let the earth cover 

 the crown or center of the plant. Press the earth firmly about it, 

 and unless h is wet weather, it is better to put a little water about 

 the roots of each one. After the plants are set, there is but little 

 to do for some time except to cultivate sufficiently well to keep 

 all weeds down, until the latter part of July or probably August 

 when the runners are beginning to take root. This is supp >sing 

 them to be set in early spring, which is undoubtedly the best 

 time. As the runners begin to take root, it is well to go over the 

 ground and spread them in different directions around the parent 

 plant, and if necessary, place a little earth upon the runner to 

 hold it in its place. By this method you will have the young 

 plants ab >ut evenly distribute! over the ground, instead of hav- 

 ing them in some places too thick, and in others but few or per- 

 haps none at all. In the fall when the ground is frozen, the 

 plants should be covered with coarse bay or straw. The latter is 

 excellent, pro/ided you can gee it free from foul seeds, and not 

 have a summer's job the next season trying to destroy their 

 product. Cover about one iuch in depth, and leave it on in the 

 spring until the dinger of freezing nights and thawing day times 

 is about over. T.tke the cover off the ground, and clean it of all 

 weeds and grass of every kind. Put on a dressing of fine manure, 

 say twelve or fifteen loads per acre, or wood ashes will do equally 

 as well. If ashes are used, put on fifty bushels per acre if un- 



