Contents 



XV 



CHAPTER XII 



PAGES 



Propagation and Renewal 226-248 



Layers or runners 226-232 



Nursery methods 226-227 



Home-grown plants 227-228 



Value of runners from the fruiting bed . 228 



Ratio of runner increase in different varieties 228-229 



Digging, packing and shipping . . . 229-232 



Other methods of propagation .... 233-236 



Potted plants 233-234 



Cuttings or summer bedding . . . 234-235 



Seeds 235-236 



Division 236 



Age of the plantation 236-238 



Current practice in the North . . . 237 



In the South and West .... 237-238 



Factors that determine the life of a plantation . 238-242 



The location and its cUmate . . . 239 



Method of culture 239-240 



Method of training 240 



Variety 240-241 



Comparative cost of renewing and resetting . 241-242 



Renewal methods ....... 242-248 



Mowing and burning 242-244 



Reducing the number of plants . . . 244-246 



Renewing hills and hedge-rows . . . 246-247 



Carrying plants over the summer in the South 247-248 



CHAPTER XIII 



Everbearing Varieties, Forcing and Other 



Special Methods of Culture . . 249-267 



Culture of the everhearers 249-253 



Removing the blossoms .... 249-250 



Harvesting and marketing .... 250-251 



Commercial value 252-253 



Culture of the Alpine 254-255 



Fall crops and double croppers .... 255-256 



