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F. E. Beatty, of Michigan, gives the following as the in- 

 crease under average conditions : Michel, Beder Wood, 

 Crescent, Warfield, Klondike and Dunlap, thirty-five 

 runners from each plant. William Belt, Parson, Haver- 

 land, Aroma, Brandywine, Gandy, Sample, twenty to 

 twenty-five runners from each plant. Clyde, Glen Mary, 

 Clark, Marshall, Parker Earle, Bubach, fifteen runners 

 from each plant. These figures include only the strong, 

 well-rooted runners. 



This increase under average conditions in commercial 

 nurseries is small compared with the increase possible 

 under special conditions. Plants of an expensive novelty 

 may be set six feet apart each way on rich land, watered 

 frequently with liquid manure, and all the runners hand- 

 layered four to six inches apart. If the variety is a normal 

 plant-maker each original plant will have made three 

 hundred to five hundred strong runners by fall. Perhaps 

 the greatest feat in strawberry propagation was by 

 O. B. Galusha of Illinois. In the spring of 1878 he secured 

 thirteen plants of Crescent, which had been introduced 

 two years before, and set them in rich soil ten feet apart 

 each way. He reported, "The plants entirely covered 

 the ground before freezing weather. I raised 11,716 well 

 rooted plants by actual count, the autumn being unusually 

 favorable for their development." ^ He sold these plants 

 for over SIOOO. 



Digging, packing and shipping. 



The best time to dig plants is when they are dormant. 

 The winter mulch, old leaves and loose runners should be 

 raked off first. Do not dig with a spade ; this cuts off the 



1 Kept. Mich. Pom. Soc, 1882, p. 355 ; and Rept. Ind. Hort. Soc, 

 1890, p. 74. 



