Strait) 'berry Culture 2j 



When the first row is completed, move the pole over and walk 

 to the other end to make the second row. You can make more 

 speed by having two poles, and making rows each way, one 

 with the right foot and the other with the left. If you attempt 

 to make rows both ways with the right foot, they will not be at 

 a uniform distance apart. 



If a line be used instead of a mark, it is to be drawn tight six 

 inches from where the row is to be so as not to have it in the 

 way of the spade in planting. By setting the side of the spade 

 near the line, the plants can easily be placed at a uniform dis- 

 tance six inches from it. 



Planting 



The strawberry plant, like any other perrenial, has a certain 

 amount of vitality stored up at the end of the growing season; 

 and, if necessary, it can draw upon its supply when growth starts 

 in the spring. In this respect it is like a bulb or a tuber, and 

 will bear a great amount of neglect or abuse, and still grow. As 

 the season advances this stock of vitality is diminished, and 

 more care is required in transplanting. I have taken up plants 

 late in the fall and wrapped them in damp moss and left them 

 laying on the ground where they were frozen and thawed several 

 times during the winter. In the spring they were planted, and 

 they fruited in June. I have even taken up plants while dor- 

 mant and cut back their roots to half an inch, and they grew 

 and fruited. If plants receive no injury while out of the ground 

 and are transplanted with reasonable care, they are ju^t as likely 

 to grow as are potatoes or onions. A plant may fail from being 

 dried while out of the ground, from being kept too long in wet 



