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each plant along the row toward the next plant. These are to 

 be layered as soon as they are ready to root. When the row is 

 filled, nip every runner that appears through the rest of the 

 season. If it is desired to raise some plants for the next year's 

 planting, let them be grown from one or more plants at the end 

 of the row. If one wishes to grow a matted row either wide or 

 narrow he can do so, but it might be well in that case to set the 

 original plants three or four feet apart instead of six. In testing 

 a new variety it is well to set a few plants of some well-known, 

 desirable sort, giving it the same chance as the new one gets. 



If one has an opportunity to sell plants, and wishes to increase 

 the stock of a new, high-priced sort, there are several meth- 

 ods that may be adopted. When one pays a dollar for six plants 

 and expects to get fifty cents a dozen for the same sort the next 

 year, or perhaps a dollar a dozen within four months, it is a real 

 pleasure to increase the stock as rapidly as possible. I had a 

 friend who raised from one thousand to twelve hundred plants 

 from one in a single season. Here is an excellent method: Set 

 the six plants in a circle three feet in diameter, in such a way 

 that they will run out from the centre of the circle. Place a 

 barrel with holes in the bottom for drainage, in the centre of 

 the circle, and fill it one quarter full of manure almost any 

 kind. After the plants have become established say in two 

 weeks pour several pails of water into the barrel of manure. 

 This will carry down some of the fertility and soak the ground 

 around the plants, causing a rank growth. This is to be done 

 as often as necessary to keep the ground moist from once to 

 twice a week according to the season. More manure is to be 

 added occasionally so as to keep up the strength of the liquid. 

 The blossoms must be cut off, and every runner layered so that 



