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plants are set six to eighteen inches apart, with a wider 

 interval for tillage between pairs of rows. This double 

 row or twin row is used merely for convenience in tillage 

 and is not distinct from hill training. 



Hedge-row. 



The plants are set eighteen inches to two feet apart in 

 the row, the rows two and a half to three feet apart, if for 

 horse tillage, and two feet apart for hand tillage. Two or 

 more runners from each mother plant are aligned in the 





Fig. 3. — Single hedge-row. 



row; these are set by hand. Sometimes but one runner 

 is set on each side of the mother plant and six to nine 

 inches from it. A runner from this maiden plant may be 

 set in the space between the mother plants. All runners 

 thrown out subsequently by the mother plants and by 

 these hand-set layers are removed. The result at the end 

 of the season is a row of large plants, six to ten inches apart. 

 This is a single hedge-row (Fig. 3). When another row is 

 formed on one side of this, taking runners either from the 

 mother plants or from the maiden plants or both, the result 

 is a double hedge-row. This method is not used to any 

 extent. When a row is formed on each side of the mother 

 plants the result is a triple hedge-row (Fig. 4) ; some have 

 called this the "double hedge-row" and others the "triple 

 hill." 

 The triple hedge-row is formed by bedding four runners 



