822 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



cality may be practically worthless a few miles distant under dif- 

 ferent conditions of soil and culture. There are some exceptions 

 to this rule. The Crescent, Bederwood and Warfield will succeed 

 in nearly every locality and condition wath good treatment. 



It is not my purpose to go into the details of planting. Any 

 one who can successfully transplant a cabbage should not with the 

 same care have any trouble in setting strawberry plants. There are, 

 however, some points where failures are sometimes made that it 

 may be well to consider. Above all things be sure to get a full 

 stand on the first planting. If not you will not be likely to get one 

 after by patching up. 



There is more danger of getting the plants too wet in shipping 

 than too dry. If the former, the crown rots, and the plant is 

 worthless. If received quite dry and in good condition otherwise, 

 wet the roots immediately, handling them a bunch at a time. They 

 are put up in bunches of twenty-five. Be careful and not wet the 

 tops or the crowns. If ready to plant put them all in the shade, 

 out of the wind, and only take out as many at a time as can be 

 planted before the roots get dry. If not ready, the roots should be 

 dipped in a thin mud, not so thick but it will penetrate all parts 

 of the bunch, or a still better way is to w'et them and then open the 

 roots and thoroughly sprinkle w'ith dr}^ dust. They then may be 

 safely laid away for a day or two, but generally the quicker a plant 

 is set after received the better. 



Some strawberry specialists insist on putting a pint of water on 

 each plant as soon as set. This might do in small plantings, but the 

 commercial strawberry man wall not do it. It is expensive and la- 

 borious, and not necessary under ordinary circumstances. 



We cut oft' about half the leaves while in the bunch, doing it 

 with a sharp knife, cutting across the top of the bunch. Where we 

 take plants up fresh and immediately reset them we do not practice 

 this. 



The commercial strawberry man generally gets two crops, one of 

 plants and one of fruit. These two plantations should never be in 

 the same beds. Keep the plantation for plants separate from that 

 for fruit, as they are handled quite different. For plants it will not 

 be necessary to intersperse varieties for the purpose of fertilizing, 

 or pollenizing. It is better, to keep the same varieties as separate as 

 practicable, that the plants do not intermix by running across the 

 rows. These w^e take up clean in the spring, carry them to the 

 cellar where they are sorted, and all the old plants as well as the 

 small ones are thrown out. 



