TRANSPLANTING. 19 
TRANSPLANTING. 
This is a process to which the strawberry is sensitive. 
The plant will live under almost any treatment or any 
manner or time of transplanting, but will not always 
yield a full supply of good fruit unless this process is 
appropriately performed. First we speak as to TIME. 
For large plantations, or for ordinary cultivators, 
the spring is perhaps the best season; certainly it is 
the time when it can be the easiest and most success- 
fully accomplished. The ground is soft and moist at 
that time, and the weather is usually favorable. 
The next season generally recommended is the 
month of September. Plants can then be easily ob- 
tained, and after the cool, moist fall weather has com- 
menced, the ground works easily, and there is not 
much difficulty in making them live. There is one 
danger, however, to be especially guarded against in 
fall transplanting ; that is, the plants may not get so 
firmly rooted as to be enabled to withstand successfully 
the severe frosts of winter. A liberal covering of 
straw will assist in remedying this matter. An adyan- 
tage gained over spring transplanting will be, the earth 
will not be as liable to pack so very hard around the 
plants in the fall, as under the hot summer’s sun and 
rains, and the plants will not be so likely to be checked 
