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which has an equable and humid climate. This is the 

 only section north of the latitude of Washington, D.C., 

 in which fall planting is uniformly successful. Spring 

 planting is preferred in the interior districts of this region 

 and in the mountain states of Colorada, Idaho, Utah, 

 Montana, Nevada and Arizona. 



To summarize the prevailing practice, spring planting 

 is preferred in all of Canada except the coast region of 

 British Columbia, and in eastern and central United 

 States as far south as Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas and 

 Oklahoma. In these states and those farther south, and 

 on the Pacific coast, most of the planting is done in the 

 fall or winter months. 



THE PLANTS 



The methods of propagating strawberries and the kind 

 of plants to set are described on pages 226 to 232. If the 

 plants are to be secured from a nurseryman, the order 

 should be placed early; no stock suffers more from late 

 delivery. Do not submit to substitution of varieties at 

 the nursery. In the North, early orders are shipped 

 during cool weather and are more likely to arrive in good 

 condition than late orders. 



Local-grown plants are somewhat preferable, because 

 they can be dug a short time before planting, and because 

 they are acclimated. This is of little practical importance 

 except in extremes of climate. Manitoba growers, for ex- 

 ample, find plants from Minnesota or Wisconsin preferable 

 to plants from southern Ontario, which has a much milder 

 climate. It may pay to secure plants of early varieties 

 from the North and of late varieties from the South ; the 

 climatic change accentuates the season of ripening. 



