Strawberry Culture 21 



runners are cut faithfully as soon as they appear, plants grow 

 to a large size, develope many crowns and produce a large am- 

 ount of fruit. The important point is to cut the runners before 

 they exhaust the parent plant. It is generally conceded that 

 the finest fruit is grown by this method. 



When grown in matted rows the plants are set much farther 

 apart and allowed to run all they will, the crop being produced 

 on the young plants. It is usual to have the rows four feet 

 apart, and the plants from one to two feet from each other in 

 the row. At the end of the season most of the surface is covered 

 with plants. Some varieties are such plant makers that they 

 should be planted farther apart, or be thinned out. 



Mr. T. B. Terry, the well-knowu agricultural writer and lec- 

 turer, who lives in this county, raises berries in matted rows, but 

 at the last of September he narrows up the rows to about two 

 feet, and then thins the plants to six inches apart. This is a 

 very great improvement, and the results are even more than 

 one would expect. 



There is another grower in this county, Mr. D. Sherbondy, 

 who has such remarkable success that his berries bring fully 

 twice the average price, and the demand exceeds the supply. 

 He sets his plants thirty inches apart each way, and cultivates 

 both ways until July. Then each plant is allowed to send out 

 four runners, two of which are layered on each side and in the 

 row. In two or three weeks these are rooted, and are then cut 

 loose from the old plant. After that no runners are permitted 

 to grow, and the most thorough cultivation is given. Another 

 grower in eastern Ohio, whose method is substantially the same, 

 has grown four hundred bushels on one acre. 



