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growing sorts, two feet apart. For some of the smaller sorts 

 one foot or eighteen inches will do. " Care should be taken, 

 that the plants are put into the ground just as they came out 

 of it — that is, with all their laterals spreading, and not all 

 gathered together and crammed into a little hole." If your 

 principal sort is a pistillate, you must plant a sufficient number 

 of staminate plants to impregnate the others. Of the Early 

 Scarlet, one row to eight of the pistillates will be enough. Of 

 less vigorous kinds, more are required. It is well to plant them 

 in alternate strips, thus : 



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In planting the hermaphrodite or perfect flowered varieties, 

 as the Woods, Alpines, and Hautbois, of course no such 

 arrangement is required. Planting may be done with success 

 either in autumn or spring. Keep the ground well worked 

 between the rows, to keep it free from weeds, and, unless you 

 want new plants for a future setting, cut off all the runners so 

 soon as they appear. A light mulching with partially decayed 

 leaves or straw, covering the whole ground, but not the plants, 

 will prove highly beneficial, especially in dry seasons and at 

 the South. Before the fruit begins to ripen, cover the ground 

 with a thin layer of straw, hay, or new-mown grass, to keep 

 the fruit clean. Every autumn, if the plants be not sufficiently 

 luxuriant, a light top-dressing of manure should be applied. 



